• DocumentCode
    3254301
  • Title

    Service outsourcing to support virtual home environments (VHE)

  • Author

    Ozianyi, Vitalis G. ; Ventura, Neco

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. Eng., Univ. of Cape Town, Rondebosch
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    14-17 Oct. 2008
  • Firstpage
    629
  • Lastpage
    633
  • Abstract
    In a virtual home environment (VHE), mobile users may access all services available on their home network, in the same manner and with the same level of service performance. Interaction between users, their home networks and candidate visited networks should be planned for service discovery, and QoS and price negotiation. A further aspect for consideration is the use of networks owned by unaffiliated operators that are candidates for facilitating the VHE, when the affiliated visited does not support the requested service. In this paper we explore VHE aspects and scenarios with the aim of introducing service outsourcing. We extend our earlier work on service outsourcing to VHE where services are outsourced to a candidate network if the custodian visited network cannot meet critical VHE requirements for a user. Through numerical analysis we show that if agreed roaming prices are charged for services delivered on an unaffiliated candidate network wider service usage will occur in VHEs.
  • Keywords
    home computing; mobile computing; numerical analysis; outsourcing; pricing; quality of service; user interfaces; virtual reality; QoS; home network; mobile users; numerical analysis; price negotiation; service discovery; service outsourcing; virtual home environments; Africa; Cities and towns; Ground penetrating radar; Home automation; Next generation networking; Numerical analysis; Outsourcing; Packet radio networks; Radio access networks; Subscriptions; Candidate Network; Custodian Network; Pricing; QoS; Roaming; VHE;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Local Computer Networks, 2008. LCN 2008. 33rd IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Montreal, Que
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2412-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2413-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LCN.2008.4664257
  • Filename
    4664257