The Communicating Home - Definition, Evaluation and Business Opportunities for TeliaSonera in a 3-5 years perspective

The communicating home concept has been defined by identifying the dominating communication technologies to/from and in the homes, the most important customer behavior and user needs, the dominating products and the dominating actors of the industry. The evaluation of the communicating home industry has been performed with a five forces framework analysis and theories regarding value migration and value structures of industries. It has been concluded that actors of communication technologies, goods and access services will compete fiercely. The barriers of entry will however be high. When it comes to content services the situation is completely different. These actors will, to the largest extent, meet lower competition and low barriers of entry. As a consequence a value migration from communication technologies, goods and access services to content services will occur. TeliaSonera is suggested to develop a content service portal. It should, in its first version, contain IPTV, music on demand, video on demand, data security, online storing and online gaming in the first place. The TeliaSonera group has the right prerequisites to implement and capitalize on a content service portal. In addition to the content service portal some other business opportunities have also been addressed in the business model

Home Area Networking With Universal Plug And Play Technology

Tez (Yüksek Lisans) -- İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2007Thesis (M.Sc.) -- İstanbul Technical University, Institute of Science and Technology, 2007Bu çalışma, ev içerisindeki kablolu ya da kablosuz akıllı cihazların, farklı özellikteki bilgisayarların birbirlerine otomatik olarak bağlanması ve birlikte çalışması, ev yerel ağının işletim sisteminden, programlama dilinden, iletişim mekanizmalarından ve fiziksel ortamdan bağımsız olabilmesi için uçtan uca dağınık ağ mimari yapısına ve TCP/IP, HTTP, XML gibi farklı internet standartları ve protokollerine imkan tanıyan evrensel tak ve çalıştır teknolojisini inceler. Bu teknoloji, sıfır konfigürasyonlu ağ oluşturma ve otomatik cihaz keşfini sağlayarak ağ oluşturmayı kullanıcıların yapabilecekleri basit yapıya dönüştürür. Ayrıca, bu çalışma isteğe bağlı transfer protokollerini ve içerik formatlarını destekleyen, ses ve görüntü içeriğinin kontrol noktası tarafından herhangi bir müdaheleye gerek olmadan cihazlar arası akmasını, kontrol noktalarının herhangi bir cihaz tipinden, içerik formatından, transfer protokolünden bağımsız olmasını sağlayan, ortam çeviricisinin yakınındaki ortam sunucusunun servislerini keşfedip gerekli ayarlamaları otomatik olarak yaparak kullanıcının ev eğlence kullanımı senaryosuna uygun olarak favori parçasını seçmesine olanak sağlayıp kullanıcıdan herhangi bir yardım gerektirmeyen geniş kapsamlı evrensel tak ve çalıştır ses ve görüntü mimarisini tanımlar. Uygulama safhası, kullanıcı müdahelesi olmadan ortam içeriğini depolayan ve akışı başlatan ortam sunucusu ile içeriği ortam formatından tamamen bağımsız olarak çalınmaya uygun hale getiren ortam çeviricisi arasında, sıradan bir televizyona evrensel tak ve çalıştır kabiliyeti kazandırabilmek için donanımsal arabirimi ortam çeviricisi olarak oluşturarak ve dizüstü bilgisayarı kontrol noktası ve ortam sunumcusu olarak programlayarak, ses ve görüntü akışını sağlar.This study provides an overview of Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) technology, which allows an architecture for pervasive peer-to-peer network connectivity of intelligent devices, PCs of all form factors, and wireless devices within the home, and builds on Internet standards and technologies, such as TCP/IP, HTTP, and XML, to enable these devices to automatically connect with one another and work together to build home networking independent of any particular operating system, programming language, transport mechanisms, or physical medium. UPnP technology is all about making home networking simple and affordable for users, supporting zero-configuration networking and automatic discovery. The study also defines overall UPnP Audio/Video (A/V) Architecture which supports arbitrary transfer protocols and content formats, enables the A/V content to flow directly between devices without any intervention from Control Point (CP), makes CPs to remain independent of any particular device type, content format and transfer protocol and requires no assistance at all from the user since Media Renderer, can discover available services from Media Server in its neighborhood, perform the necessary setup automatically, and finally enable the user to select and play their favorite song in home entertainment usage scenario. Implementation phase provides A/V transport and streaming without any user intervention between server and renderer by building and programming an hardware interface as Media Renderer, in order to make an ordinary A/V device UPnP enabled and programming a laptop as CP and Media Server.Yüksek LisansM.Sc

Μέθοδοι Λήψης Αποφάσεων και Μελέτη Αβεβαιότητας για τη Δημιουργία Οδικού Χάρτη με εφαρμογή στα Οικιακά Δίκτυα Επόμενης Γενιάς

Τα τελευταία χρόνια είναι επιτακτική η ανάγκη για υποστήριξη ευρυζωνικών υπηρεσιών στον οικιακό και εργασιακό χώρο. Δεδομένου ότι έχει σημειωθεί μεγάλη πρόοδος σε τεχνολογίες με υψηλό εύρος ζώνης τίθεται το θέμα διερεύνησης των τεχνολογικών λύσεων καθώς και του τρόπου με τον οποίο θα διασυνδεθούν, ώστε να επιτευχθούν υψηλές ταχύτητες. Η παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή διερευνά τη δημιουργία ενός οδικού χάρτη που θα αποτελέσει το κλειδί για τη διασφάλιση της ομαλής ανάπτυξης των μελλοντικών οικιακών δικτύων, προδιαγράφει την πορεία τους και καθορίζει τις καταλληλότερες τεχνολογικές λύσεις για την ανάπτυξη των αντίστοιχων συστημάτων, λαμβάνοντας υπόψη τεχνολογικούς αλλά και κοινωνικο- οικονομικούς παράγοντες. Η εν λόγω διδακτορική διατριβή έχει ως απώτερο σκοπό αφενός τη δημιουργία ενός οδικού χάρτη με εφαρμογή στα οικιακά δίκτυα επόμενης γενιάς, με τη βοήθεια των πολυκριτηριακών μεθόδων λήψης απόφασης και αφετέρου την μελέτη κρίσιμων θεμάτων αβεβαιότητας που ελλοχεύουν στις διαδικασίες λήψης απόφασης και ενδέχεται να επηρεάζουν το τελικό αποτέλεσμα. Άλλωστε στη σύγχρονή εποχή που διανύουμε, η λήψη ορθών αποφάσεων με τη χρήση αποτελεσματικών μεθόδων κρίνεται εξαιρετικά σημαντική. Η μελέτη και ανάπτυξη των ανωτέρω βασίζεται στην Αναλυτική Ιεραρχική Διαδικασία (AHP), σε κάποιες παραλλαγές της και ιδιαίτερα στη μέθοδο συγκρίσεων ανά ζεύγη, αναπόσπαστο κομμάτι πολλών διαδικασιών λήψης απόφασης.In recent years there is a need for supporting broadband services in both home and office networks. Given the increasing technological development, it would be interesting to investigate the technical solutions and the possibility to achieve high bit rate connectivity. Towards this end, this thesis aims to investigate the development of a roadmap which will be the key for ensuring the smooth development of future home networks and determine the most appropriate technological solutions for the development of such systems. This thesis aims both to contribute to a roadmap implementation in next-generation home networks, based on multi-criteria decision making methods and also study critical issues of uncertainty lurking in decision making processes and may affect the final result. The study and the development of the above lies on the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), and especially in pairwise comparison method, integral part of many decision making processes

Kotiverkon tietoliikenneyhteyksien hallinta

Kulutuselektroniikka, matkapuhelin- ja tietotekniikka ovat viime vuosina lähentyneet toisiaan. Perinteisesti näitä tekniikoita vastaavat verkot, päätelaitteet ja sisältö ovat olleet erillisiä. Nykyään Internet-teknologia ja viestinnän digitalisoituminen yhdentää verkkoja. Palveluntarjoajat tuottavat sisältöä kasvavassa määrin digitaalisena. Päätelaitteetkin yhdentyvät. Esimerkiksi kannettavaa tietokonetta voidaan pitää matkapuhelimena tai televisiovastaanottimena, kun se on varustettu tarvittavalla laitteistolla ja ohjelmistolla. Sisältöjen, verkkojen ja päätelaitteiden yhdentyminen on saanut yhä useammat kuluttajat rakentamaan kotiverkkoja. Tutkielman tavoitteena on esitellä ja vertailla markkinoilla olevia laitteita ja ohjelmistoja, joiden avulla voidaan rakentaa toimiva kotiverkko. Kotiverkolla tarkoitetaan tässä tutkielmassa kodin sisäpuolista verkkoa, joka on liitetty toimivasti kodin ulkopuolisiin verkkoihin. Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan ensin yleisimpiä lähiverkko- ja lyhyen kantaman verkkotekniikoita, joita käytetään kotiverkkoja rakennettaessa. Tämän jälkeen tarkastellaan joitakin väliohjelmistoratkaisuja, joilla voidaan hallita kotiverkon laitteiden vuorovaikutusta ja turvallisuutta. Lopuksi suunnitellaan konkreettinen kotiverkko. Käyttötilanteiden avulla havainnollistaan verkkotekniikoiden ja väliohjelmiston yhteistoimintaa tietoliikenteen hallinnassa

Bio-Inspired Optimization of Ultra-Wideband Patch Antennas Using Graphics Processing Unit Acceleration

Ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless systems have recently gained considerable attention as effective communications platforms with the properties of low power and high data rates. Applications of UWB such as wireless USB put size constraints on the antenna, however, which can be very dicult to meet using typical narrow band antenna designs. The aim of this thesis is to show how bio-inspired evolutionary optimization algorithms, in particular genetic algorithm (GA), particle swarm optimization (PSO) and biogeography-based optimization (BBO) can produce novel UWB planar patch antenna designs that meet a size constraint of a 10 mm 10 mm patch. Each potential antenna design is evaluated with the nite dierence time domain (FDTD) technique, which is accurate but time-consuming. Another aspect of this thesis is the modication of FDTD to run on a graphics processing unit (GPU) to obtain nearly a 20 speedup. With the combination of GA, PSO, BBO and GPU-accelerated FDTD, three novel antenna designs are produced that meet the size and bandwidth requirements applicable to UWB wireless USB system

Scenario-based techno-economic analysis of digital homes

Kotitalouksien laitemäärät kasvavat ja kodit muuttuvat vähitellen digitaalisiksi. Uusissa laitteissa on yhä useammin mahdollisuus verkkokäyttöön yhdessä muiden laitteiden kanssa. Laitteiden lukumäärän kasvaessa niiden hallinta ja yhteensovitus kuitenkin monimutkaistuu ja vain harvat suoriutuvat näistä vaativista tehtävistä. Monet joutuvat turvautumaan ulkopuoliseen apuun. Tässä diplomityössä pyritään arvioimaan keskivertokodin kautta Suomen digitaalisten kotien markkinoita sekä tietoliikenneoperaattoreiden roolia näillä markkinoilla. Kirjallisuustutkimuksen ja asiantuntijahaastattelujen perusteella laadittiin arviot laitteiden hankinta- ja ylläpitokustannuksista digitaalisten kotien kasvun arvioimiseksi. Tutkimuksessa käytettiin neljää erilaista jo aiemmin määriteltyä skenaariota kuvaamaan markkinoiden mahdollisia kehityssuuntia; paikallisesti keskittynyt, globaalisti keskittynyt, globaalit spesialistit ja paikalliset huoltomiehet sekä tee-se-itse-skenaario. Tutkimuksen tulokset viittaavat siihen, että mullistavaa yhtäkkistä muutosta kulutustavoissa ja sitä kautta digitaalisten kotien markkinoiden kasvussa ei ole odotettavissa seuraavan viiden vuoden aikana. Digitaalisiin laitteisiin ja palveluihin käytettävä raha puolestaan kuitenkin kasvaa, kun perinteiset hyödykkeet digitalisoituvat. Digitaalisten kotien markkinat jatkavat kasvuaan ja ne tulevat todennäköisesti olemaan kombinaatio kahdesta tai useammasta tässä työssä käytetystä skenaariosta. Tutkimuksen aikana löytyi myös puutteita käytetyistä skenaarioista, jotka piti ottaa huomioon tässä työssä.Households are slowly turning into digital homes as consumers are filling up their homes with a vast number of digital devices. As the number of devices grows, management of the devices and their interoperability is becoming increasingly complex so that only tech enthusiasts are able to handle the task. For many, the installation and maintenance of the devices is often too difficult to take care of by themselves and outside help is required. By assessing an average Finnish household, this thesis aims to evaluate the digital home market of Finland and the possible roles of telecom operators in the market. The costs of purchasing and maintaining the devices were estimated to predict the possible growth of the market based on literature analysis and expert interviews. Four predefined scenarios were used for the analysis to depict the potential development paths of digital homes: the locally centralized, the globally centralized, the global specialists and local janitors, and the do-it-yourself-scenario. The results of the study indicate that a sudden change in consumption habits and thus the overall growth of the digital home market is unlikely during the next five years. However, as the amount of money spent on digital homes is expected to increase due to the digitalization of more traditional services, the number of devices in an average household most likely keeps steadily growing and the entire market along with it. The digital home market will most likely be a combination of two or more of the scenarios and their attributes. During the analysis also some deficiencies were found in the scenarios used and had to be taken into consideration in this thesis

On the feasibility of the communications in the TVWS spectrum analysis and coexistence issue

In the last decade, the enormous growth in the wireless industry has come from using only a small part of the wireless spectrum, nominally less than 10% under 3 GHz. Nowadays, the vast majority of the available spectral resources have already been licensed. Measurements made by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) have shown that a great part of the spectrum, although allocated, is virtually unused. For all this reasons, in the last years, several countries have already (USA) or are in the process (EU, China, Japan, South Korea) of switching off analog TV broadcasting in favor of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) broadcasting systems and digital switchover plans have driven a thorough review of TV spectrum exploitation. The resulting unused channels within this band are called “TV white spaces” (TVWS). Even after the redistribution of the digital TV channels, the problem of an efficient utilization of the allocated frequencies is still far from being solved. For example, there are still large territorial areas on which, although allocated, the TV channels result unused, due to coverage problems. New spectrum allocation approaches such as the dynamic spectrum access method have been studied. This new concept implies that the radio terminals have the capacity to monitor their own radio environment and consequently adapt to the transmission conditions on whatever frequency band are available (adaptive radio). If this concept is supplemented with the capacity of analyzing the surrounding radio environment in search of white spaces, the term adaptive radio is extended to Cognitive Radio (CR). The spectrum management rule of CR is that all new users for the spectrum are secondary (cognitive) users (SU) and requires that they must detect and avoid the primary (licensed) users (PU) in terms of used frequencies, transmission power and modulation scheme. In the TV bands specifically, the presence of PUs (e.g. TV broadcasters) can be revealed both performing a spectrum sensing operation and considering the information provided by the external databases called “geo-location databases” (GL-DB). The database provides, for a certain location, the list of the free TV channels and the allowable maximum effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) for transmitting without harmful interference to incumbent users. Decision thresholds are still a critical parameter for protecting services in a scenario where cognitive devices would be operating. There are cases where the approach based on GL Spectrum Occupancy DB might not be available, either because the database does not exist for that area (for example in non densely populated areas) or in the case that access to the database is not possible (deep indoor operation, low populated areas etc.). Several studies have suggested that radio noise has increased significantly over the last decades and consequently the assumptions about decision thresholds and interference protection ratios might be outdated. The Hidden Node Margin (HNM) is a parameter that quantifies the difference between the potential interfered signal values at the location where it is measured or estimated by the cognitive device, and the actual value at the location where the receiving antenna for this signal is located. HNM is a key parameter to define the protection requirements that cognitive devices must comply in order not to create any harmful interference to broadcast receiving systems. In this context, this thesis goes in a precise direction, with four main topics related to the feasibility of communication cognitive systems operating in the TVWS, considering coexistence as the main operational issue. The first topic studies new spectrum sensing approaches in order to improve the more critical functionality of CRs. In the second topic an unlicensed indoor short-range distribution system for the wireless retransmission in the DTT band of High definition TV (HDTV) contents with immediate implementations as home entertainment systems has been carried out. The third topic of this thesis is about a particular database developed in order to provide information to easily calculate HNM values and associated statistics, TV Channel Occupancy and Man Made Noise Upper Limits. The empirical data for this work has been recorded in different locations of Spain and Italy during 2011 and 2012 thanks to the partnership between the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (D.I.E.E.) of the University of Cagliari and the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the University of Bilbao (UPV/EHU). Finally in the last topic we focus on the IEEE 802.22 WRAN standard evaluating, thanks to extended measurements, the performance of an 802.22 system operating into the same coverage range of a DTT receiver

Range Information Systems Management (RISM) Phase 1 Report

RISM investigated alternative approaches, technologies, and communication network architectures to facilitate building the Spaceports and Ranges of the future. RISM started by document most existing US ranges and their capabilities. In parallel, RISM obtained inputs from the following: 1) NASA and NASA-contractor engineers and managers, and; 2) Aerospace leaders from Government, Academia, and Industry, participating through the Space Based Range Distributed System Working Group (SBRDSWG), many of whom are also; 3) Members of the Advanced Range Technology Working Group (ARTWG) subgroups, and; 4) Members of the Advanced Spaceport Technology Working Group (ASTWG). These diverse inputs helped to envision advanced technologies for implementing future Ranges and Range systems that builds on today s cabled and wireless legacy infrastructures while seamlessly integrating both today s emerging and tomorrow s building-block communication techniques. The fundamental key is to envision a transition to a Space Based Range Distributed Subsystem. The enabling concept is to identify the specific needs of Range users that can be solved through applying emerging communication tec

Ableitung von Einflussfaktoren als Grundlage für die Entwicklung von Technologieszenarien im Rahmen der Prognosephase des Technologiemanagements für den Zeitraum 2005 - 2010

Ziel der Arbeit ist, im Rahmen des Technologiemanagements aus aktuellen, technologischen Entwicklungen Einflussfaktoren für die Entwicklung realistischer Technologieszenarien für den Zeitraum von 2005-2010 abzuleiten. Der Erkenntnisgewinn der Arbeit basiert auf einem Katalog von unterschiedlichen Einflussfaktoren, die als Basis für die Entwicklung von Extrapolationen oder Szenarien genutzt werden können. Die dieser Dissertation zugrunde liegende Forschungsmethodik basiert auf den forschungslogischen Abläufen für empirische Forschung verbundenen mit der phasenorientierten Vorgehensweise zur Ableitung von Einflussfaktoren als Teil der Szenarioanalyse. Die zu durchlaufenden Phasen sind: Identifikation der technologischen Entwicklungsschwerpunkte und Anwendungsbereiche der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien, die beispielhafte Beschreibung der technologischen Entwicklungsschwerpunkte und Ableitung der entsprechenden Einflussfaktoren, die beispielhafte Beschreibung der Anwendungsbereiche der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien und Ableitung der jeweiligen Einflussfaktoren und die Zusammenfassende Darstellung der Einflussfaktoren. Auf Basis unterschiedlicher Methoden, wie die Erfassung von Expertenmeinungen, Scanning und Monitoring, Literatur- und Patentanalyse oder der Delphi-Methode werden in einer ersten Stufe technologische Entwicklungsschwerpunkte und Anwendungsbereiche der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien identifiziert. Den entsprechenden technologischen Entwicklungsschwerpunkten werden dann beispielhaft unterschiedliche Technologien zugeordnet und detailliert beschrieben. Aus der Beschreibung, bzw. den technologischen Merkmalen werden die technologischen Einflussfaktoren mit ihren Messgrößen abgeleitet. Den Anwendungsbereichen der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien werden unterschiedliche Anwendungskonzepte zugeordnet, wie Telearbeit, Homeautomation oder mobile Computing. Durch die detaillierte Beschreibung dieser Konzepte werden die nicht-technologischen Einflussgrößen identifiziert und beschrieben. Anhand der Kombination von Einflussfaktoren aus den Entwicklungsschwerpunkten und den Anwendungsbereichen der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien können dann Szenarien oder Trendextrapolationen erstellt werden, die bei Investitionsentscheidungen in die IT vor Fehlentscheidungen schützen können

Description and proposal of an end-to-end IPTV solution

Orientador: Yuzo IanoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de ComputaçãoResumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é tanto estudar quanto analisar uma solução de IPTV (TV por IP). Tal serviço está emergindo nas operadoras de telecomunicações de todo o mundo. Essa solução está sendo bem aceita e mudando radicalmente a visão de negócios dos provedores de telecomunicações em todo o mundo. Consumidores finais vão demandar serviços personalizados através de múltiplos dispositivos, incluindo canais de TV, conteúdo sob demanda, TV interativa, comunicações de vídeo e de voz, música, compartilhamento de fotos e arquivos e jogos on-line. Esses são alguns dos serviços de usuário final, entregues de forma transparente e combinada. Isso tudo requer mudanças inovadoras nas operadoras de telecomunicações, desde uma nova arquitetura de rede, com qualidade de serviço fim-a-fim, confiabilidade, gerência, e segurança. Contribui-se com uma descrição detalhada de como arquitetar essa solução, cobrindo todos os desafios para se implementar um sistema de IPTV, descrevendo-se todos os componentes e serviços da solução, e também qual seria a evolução natural dessa solução. É também parte de nossa contribuição a proposição de algumas melhorias para reduzir o tempo de troca de canal, além de sugestões para se implementar uma solução de inserção de comercial e de inserção de legenda. Palavras-chave: Codificação de imagem, Imagem, IPTV, Triple Play, STB, VOD, IGMPAbstract: This works concerns the study and the analysis of an IPTV solution (Internet Protocol Television). This kind of service is emerging in the Telco all over the world and its good acceptance is radically changing the business vision of the telecommunications providers. Final consumers will demand personalized services using multiple devices including TV channels, video-on-demand, interative TV, video and voice communications, music, photo and file sharing and online games. All these services require novelties and changes at the telecoms field embracing new network architecture using P2P service quality, reliability, customer management and security. The contribution of this work concerns a detailed description of how to design the solution for these challenges, how to implement a new IPTV system describing all the components and services that have to be provided. The natural evolution of this approach is also considered. Additionally, this work proposes new solutions to reduce the channel zapping time and to insert commercials and subtitles. Keywords: Image coding, Imaging, IPTV, Triple Play, STB, VOD, IGMP, MPEG, H.264, Multicast, MPEG-2 TS, RTSP, Middleware, DRMMestradoTelecomunicações e TelemáticaMestre em Engenharia Elétric