This paper designs HomeNet Profiler, a software that runs on any computer connected inside a home network, to collect a wide range of measurements about home networks including the set of devices, the set of services (with UPnP and Zeroconf), and the characteristics of the WiFi environment. To attract a larger number of users, HomeNet Profiler runs one-shot measurements upon user demand. We val...

In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of a smart home application for remote monitoring and control home devices via internet and messaging services of the cellular networks. Current smart home devices can be accessed by its remote control, within a limited coverage span of a personal area network, normally at around a 100m radius. In utilizing a mobile device and the Internet...

This paper describes a smart home system consisting of Smart Door Porch and a home portal. Smart Door Porch uses cameras, an RFID (radio-frequency identification) reader, and a touch panel for home security as well as the at-home awareness of each family member. The home portal uses Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) framework and Java EE as the middleware to provide services including hom...

Wireless home networks are widely deployed due to their low cost, ease of installation, and plug-and-play capabilities with consumer electronic devices. Participating devices may cache continuous media (audio and video clips) in order to reduce the demand for outside-the-home network resources and improve the average delay incurred from when a user references a clip to the onset of its display ...

The basic challenge of home networking is to connect devices anywhere in the house in a way that is simple, reliable, inexpensive and secure. Increasing interaction with computers and other electronic & electrical devices in our day to day life has fueled the demand for an increased performance of home networks. With multimedia becoming an integral part of our lives, establishing a reliable hom...

Wireless networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Everything (IoE), and smart homes have become extremely important terms in our present-day life. Most of the buildings, companies, institutions, and even homes depend onthese technologies for interaction, communication, automation, and everything surrounding humans. To understand the advanced topics in wireless networks and IoT devi...

Smart home applications are currently implemented by vendor-specific systems managing mainly a few number of homogeneous sensors and actuators. However, the sharp increase of the number of intelligent devices in a house and the foreseen explosion of the smart home application market will change completely this vendor centric scenario towards open, expandable systems made up of a large number of...