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Previous studies in home energy have taken a service oriented approach to disaggregating direct energy consumption. With a particular focus on media and ICT services in the home, our proposed platform builds upon this work by providing activity oriented ...

A home. It is where people spend most of their family time. It is a place to gather friends. It is somewhere to escape the world in the comfort of someplace that is our own. And it is a location that is filled with a variety of big and small appliances ...

Managing a home network is challenging because the underlying infrastructure is so complex. Existing interfaces either hide or expose the network's underlying complexity, but in both cases, the information that is shown does not necessarily allow a user ...

In this paper, we present a MANET experimentation framework developed at Poznan University of Technology within the EU FP7 OPNEX project including its main part called the wnPUT testbed. The presentation is complemented by description of the state-of-...

Multimedia applications are challenging software and require collaboration of very different components such as networking, rendering, or scripting to provide a nice user experience. GPAC is an open source multimedia framework that implements a vast ...

As digital media replaces analog, consumers are beginning to discover that their devices no longer interoperate in the way they are accustomed to. For example, they may find it impossible to transfer a DVR-recorded show onto a portable media player from ...

This paper describes major risks, threats and attacks on home networks in general, and UPnP™ home networks in particular. Also considered are the strengths and weaknesses of technologies used to protect home-network and personal devices. The authors ...

The growth of home and small enterprise networks brings with it a large number of devices and networks that are either managed poorly or not at all. Hosts on these networks may become compromised and become sources of spam, denial-of-service traffic, or ...

Home networks differ from most other networks since they are usually administrated by inexperienced users. Today, protocols such as Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support zero-configuration networking and are used for data-sharing and entertainment. ...

In this paper, we explore the benefits of videochat for families and the corresponding work that home users engage in to make a video call run smoothly. We explore the varieties of social work required, including coordination work, presentation work, ...

Information and communications technology influences many of the activities we perform on any given day. Through the widespread availability and use of consumer electronics we have almost augmented ourselves to permanently form part of technology. This ...

We consider the problem of traffic management in small networks with both wireless and wired devices, connected to the Internet through a single gateway. Examples of such networks are small office networks or residential networks, where typically ...

This paper proposes a home automation system using a PDA(Personal Digital Assistants)-based intelligent robot system architecture which consists of three layers; a user layer, a manager layer, and an action layer. In the user layer, users manage and ...

An annotation-based classroom activities support environment with home network technology is proposed. The environment includes digital appliances, mobile devices, and PCs to facilitate a face-to-face class. The resulting system enables the sharing and ...

Research focused on the user experience of home networking repeatedly finds that householders have difficulties setting up networked equipment. No research to date, however, has studied the in the moment interactions of householders with networking ...

To simplify the message management in home networking, this paper form a structure of message description base on XML technology. In this structure, the message of device and its accessing interface are stored in the form ofXML document which are ...

This work confers an application which makes possible to use a Bluetooth enabled mobile phone to remote control home appliances such electric fan, LEDs and stepper motor, connected to the personal computer. It can also be used to control other computer ...

Digital TV Systems open a new world of possibilities. Since December 2007 the Brazilian people has been experiencing this new technology. Among the most promising applications are the ones that enable TV-Sets to work as the central processing unit of a ...

The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) works toward a vision of an interoperable network of PCs, home appliances and mobile devices in the home, enabling a seamless environment for sharing and growing new digital media and content services with UPnP ...

Today's multimedia infrastructures adopt a centralized approach, where all multimedia processing takes place within a single system. The network is, at best, used for streaming data transmission. Since there is a strong trend towards networked systems, ...