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Home Networking Technologies and Standards

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Covering the vast majority of current and emerging home networking technologies, standards and trends, this new, practical resource offers you a comprehensive understanding of this developing area. The book presents an “end-to-end reference architecture”, where the main residential services are identified and their network requirements are fully analyzed. You find detailed coverage of both wireless and wireline technologies, including IEEE 802.11, Firewire, USB, HiperLAN, and Bluetooth. You learn how the technologies work, how they have evolved, what their capabilities are, and what markets they target. The book also discusses fixed-wireless and satellite access network alternatives.

Moreover,this forward-looking reference presents the scope, potential applications,operational concept, architecture, and protocol stack of higher layertechnologies that aim to provide convergence between multiple in-home andaccess networks. The book introduces the concept of the residential gateway(RG) as a single point of network convergence, and explores importantconsiderations for future digital-smart networked homes.

Contents:

TheMagic Boxes - Book Scope and Structure.

End-to-EndReference Architecture - Residential Services Identification. ServicesRequirements. Home Network Reference Architecture.

WirelessHome Access Network Alternatives - Introduction. Analog Public SwitchedTelephone Network (PSTN). Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). XDSL.Hybrid Fiber Coaxial. FTTx.

WirelessHome Access Network Alternatives - MMDS. LMDS. Satellite.

Technologiesthat Reuse Existing Home Wiring- Powerline Communications. Phone LineCommunications. Home Coaxial Cable Communications.

WirelessIn-Home Technologies - Infrared Data Association (IrDA). Digital EnhancedCordless Telecommunications (DECT). Bluetooth. IEEE 802.11/IEEE 802.11b.HomeRF. HiperLAN.

EmergingWireless Technologies - Evolution of IrDA. Evolution of Bluetooth. Evolution ofIEEE 802.11. IEEE 802.11a. IEEE 802.15.3. HiperLAN/2. 5GHz Unified Protocol(5-UP).

Technologieswith New Wiring Requirements - Switched Ethernet. Universal Serial Bus.

Firewire- IEEE 1394. IEEE 1394 Application. Comparison and Interoperability. IEEE 1394Future.

MiddlewareTechnologies - Home Electronic System (HES). Home Audio/Video Interoperability(HAVi). Universal Plug ‘n’ Play (UpnP). Open Services Gateway Initiative(OSGI). Versatile Home Network (VHN). European Home System (EHS). KONNEX.

ResidentialGateways - The RG Role. RG System Requirements. Potential HardwareArchitecture. Potential Software Architecture. Business Model. Market Forecast.

Presentand Future of Home Networking.

Glossary.

TheodoreB. Zahariadis is a Technical Director at Ellemedia (an affiliate of BellLaboratories). He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineeringfrom the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and his Dipl.-Ing.degree in computer engineering from the University of Patras, Greece.

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