A service-oriented wireless home network

Abstract

Using a service-oriented approach, we determined the services and the ultimate end-equipment needed in each room of a home. We found that future homes could be very simple without many "electronic boxes" as of today. We believe that future home networking will focus just on the distribution of needed services to the ultimate end-equipment via a simple, yet smart, flexible and reliable, home network. Hence, we proposed a semi-decentralized home network architecture which consisted of a home media server and a number of "room-servers". "Room services" in each room were provided via its corresponding "room-server". In order to provide neat and simple services to consumers, an all-wireless solution was further proposed using the upcoming IEEE 802.15.3a and IEEE 802.11n standards.