Home DNS: Experiences with Seamless Remote Access to Home Services

Uniform interfaces and interaction methods between at-home, mobile and nomadic access to content and devices from consumers´ homes, are crucial in making compelling extended home applications and services. It is possible to access these services whether within the user´s home or, remotely, elsewhere. This paper investigates and identifies the benefits of existing remote access methods and presents the new Home DNS solution as a means to ensure remote access connectivity to home services. Through design and implementation of the Home DNS solution, we prove the feasibility of seamless remote access to home services using existing mobile, home CE and PC devices without modification, and so offer a minimal deployment barrier to satisfying these needs in heterogeneous real-world digital home and nomadic cases.