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1. Remote management of the home network
The project GENIO will take into consideration the main existent standards in the area (extra-home and intra-home management standards e.g. TR-069, OMA-DM, UPnP/DLNA…) and the work undertaken in the project Encompas2
to define and develop a platform prototype that will ease and automate
the integrated management (provision, configuration, monitoring /
supervision, diagnosis and problem resolution) of the home network.
2. Advanced supervision and self-management in the home network
A
big problem for operators and service providers is the huge operating
expenses of the services deployed in the These can affect the Quality
of Service (QoS) of other services.
One of the main objectives of GENIO’s platform is the advanced home network supervision. GENIO
will apply autonomic technologies to the home network configuring,
supervision, diagnosis and healing tasks, aiming at maximising their
automation and intelligence when dealing with the arising events and
alarms. The objective is to avoid unnecessary load to centralized
management system when dealing with local events.
Developing
a home network management framework, that correlates and optimizes
local home network elements with global home network using
self-management properties. Developing
a piloting system able to provide self-management functions both on the
home network elements and the different devices. Developing
a network management solution that can treat a meshed network of mixed
devices connected to the coax, wireless, phoneline and powerline
networks as a virtual single network, by providing the ability to
monitor and troubleshoot this new type of home network.
GENIO will provide modules based on a hybrid rule-based inference engine (artificial intelligence),
which integrate soft-computing techniques like neural network and fuzzy
systems with traditional production rule systems based on Rete
algorithms
3. Ubiquitous access to home contents
GENIO will develop an innovative solution (based on UPnP protocol) that will enable ubiquitous access to content, so that content is not tied to a specific device and/or location.
GENIO
will investigate high bit rate technologies wired & wireless,
allowing to download or to exchange content in a very short time, for
short range communications with low power consumption, thus suitable
for mobile devices and in-room applications (e.g. UWB, 60 GHz, VLC, Mediaxtream) The
project will propose a unified catalogue for all content type: Home
Network; broadcasted content; on-demand content, etc) and for all
devices. This unified catalogue will allow users to browse and consume
all content available even while on the move but also to search within
this catalogue for relevant content. GENIO
will work in home to home communications in order to enable
personal content distribution but also dissemination of commercial
content and services
4. Personalization in home network
GENIO will also work on the personalization of the services based on some guidelines form ETSI (ETSI EG 202 325 and ETSI HF STF 342).
A personalized television system will be developed taking into account
the user’s profiles and their wishes. The television is by nature
watched by several people and there is a need to manage both “family”
mode and “user” modes.
GENIO
will also address issues that affect the customization of content and
services, so that on the basis of a unified catalog and a user profile
is possible to maximize the entertainment experience for the user
The main aspects are:
Subscription
authentication issues that allow the personalization of configuration
in the home devices to access the services the user has subscripted to. Personalization
of the services themselves that the user is subscribed to, to the needs
or preferences of the user, by means of the use of a User Profile
Management System.
5. Authentication
Though
it isn’t the main objective of the project, a Authentication mechanism
will be defined. This is important because the concept of Extended Home
(remote access to home contents, “home mobility” concept) implies the
ideas of access using different devices, ubiquitous, different contents
and home mobility
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