Quality of service concept for smart home services

Author

Hager, Markus ; Begerow, Peggy ; Krasovsky, Pavlo ; Renhak, Karsten ; Seitz, Jochen

Author_Institution

Commun. Networks Res. Lab., Ilmenau Univ. of Technol., Ilmenau, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

4-6 July 2012

Firstpage

266

Lastpage

271

Abstract

Our paper proposes a new quality of service concept for smart home services. We assume that every flat in a house has its own smart computer to perform local services and acts as an interface for the different sensors and actors inside the flat. These smart computers are interconnected using a plain switched Ethernet infrastructure. A central server offers shared services for each user and a gateway realizes Internet access. Based on the defined priority of each service, we present a solution to prevent congestion situations inside the network based on a distributed traffic shaping scheme. Furthermore, the proposed system is not only applicable to the smart home services scenario, it could also be applied to handle similar problems within classic computer networks and many other fields.

Keywords

Internet; LAN interconnection; home automation; home networks; local area networks; quality of service; switching networks; telecommunication traffic; Internet; central server; computer network; distributed traffic shaping scheme; gateway; quality of service; sensor; smart computer; smart home service; switched Ethernet infrastructure; Logic gates; Middleware; Network topology; Quality of service; Sensors; Servers; Smart homes; Ethernet; congestion control; smart home;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 2012 Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Phuket

ISSN

2165-8528

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1377-3

Electronic_ISBN

2165-8528

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUFN.2012.6261708

Filename

6261708