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GENIO

Next Generation Home

Coordinator: Dr. Apostolos Nikolaidis, e-mail: anikolai (at) gdt.gr

Involved countries: Greece, France, Spain

 

Abstract

Nowadays, huge R&D efforts are running on the re-invention of the Internet so that it is able to cope with future challenges, like the viral growth in the number of connected users, devices, services and user-generated contents. If we want these efforts to succeed, network management has to be able to cross the boundary of the NTU (Network Termination Unit) to be able to manage all the new devices that can appear in the home network. The project GENIO will define the home network of the future, and will focus in the following main areas: Converged remote management of home end-user devices and advanced self-management of the home network. GENIO will take into consideration the main existent management standards in the area (e.g. TR-069, OMA-DM, UPnP/DLNA), and the work of other bodies (e.g. HGI) or projects (e.g. Encompas2), over which it will develop solutions that will be able to manage all this complexity in an access technology-unaware way. On the other hand, high OPEX is one of the biggest problems today for operators and service providers in the home environment, because it is very difficult to know what devices are connected to the home network, their interactions, and how can the Quality of Service (QoS) be affected. GENIO will apply autonomic technologies aiming at maximising home network automation and intelligence when dealing with the events and alarms that may arise. Ubiquitous access to the home contents. Main aspects to be tackled are the access to content from everywhere (regardless of the device and its location - at home or outside), unified and efficient catalogue of the contents available at home, and high data rate and low power consumption transmission technologies in home environment. Personalization. The concept of user personalization will be developed aiming to propose new usages and to simplify the user life. This requires new user identification techniques and profiling schemes depending on the usages and applications. GENIO will work on these solutions, and also in subscription identification solutions for device configuration personalization, so that users are able to carry their home with them using the same authentication mechanism (e.g. a single SIM card) in any Home Gateway, giving support to the concept "My home moves with me".