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Resolution mechanism model for heterogeneous systems in smart home environment
Emerging growth of heterogeneous devices can be seen in smart home environment. These devices are diversified and highly heterogeneous in nature. Hence, there is a need of multiple devices in the same environment are orchestrating with one another in harmonic way. However, this thing becoming complicated whenever more heterogeneous systems are introducing into the same environment from time to time. This condition leads to system dependencies with each other and eventually leading towards conflict occurrences among them. In this work, we present a conflict resolution mechanism for heterogeneous devices in home environment using Resolution Mechanism model. The performance of the proposed model verified and justified within the need of smart home context
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Multimedia delivery in the future internet
The term âNetworked Mediaâ implies that all kinds of media including text, image, 3D graphics, audio
and video are produced, distributed, shared, managed and consumed on-line through various networks,
like the Internet, Fiber, WiFi, WiMAX, GPRS, 3G and so on, in a convergent manner [1]. This white
paper is the contribution of the Media Delivery Platform (MDP) cluster and aims to cover the Networked
challenges of the Networked Media in the transition to the Future of the Internet.
Internet has evolved and changed the way we work and live. End users of the Internet have been confronted
with a bewildering range of media, services and applications and of technological innovations concerning
media formats, wireless networks, terminal types and capabilities. And there is little evidence that the pace
of this innovation is slowing. Today, over one billion of users access the Internet on regular basis, more
than 100 million users have downloaded at least one (multi)media file and over 47 millions of them do so
regularly, searching in more than 160 Exabytes1 of content. In the near future these numbers are expected
to exponentially rise. It is expected that the Internet content will be increased by at least a factor of 6, rising
to more than 990 Exabytes before 2012, fuelled mainly by the users themselves. Moreover, it is envisaged
that in a near- to mid-term future, the Internet will provide the means to share and distribute (new)
multimedia content and services with superior quality and striking flexibility, in a trusted and personalized
way, improving citizensâ quality of life, working conditions, edutainment and safety.
In this evolving environment, new transport protocols, new multimedia encoding schemes, cross-layer inthe
network adaptation, machine-to-machine communication (including RFIDs), rich 3D content as well as
community networks and the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays are expected to generate new models of
interaction and cooperation, and be able to support enhanced perceived quality-of-experience (PQoE) and
innovative applications âon the moveâ, like virtual collaboration environments, personalised services/
media, virtual sport groups, on-line gaming, edutainment. In this context, the interaction with content
combined with interactive/multimedia search capabilities across distributed repositories, opportunistic P2P
networks and the dynamic adaptation to the characteristics of diverse mobile terminals are expected to
contribute towards such a vision.
Based on work that has taken place in a number of EC co-funded projects, in Framework Program 6 (FP6)
and Framework Program 7 (FP7), a group of experts and technology visionaries have voluntarily
contributed in this white paper aiming to describe the status, the state-of-the art, the challenges and the way
ahead in the area of Content Aware media delivery platforms
Big Data and the Internet of Things
Advances in sensing and computing capabilities are making it possible to
embed increasing computing power in small devices. This has enabled the sensing
devices not just to passively capture data at very high resolution but also to
take sophisticated actions in response. Combined with advances in
communication, this is resulting in an ecosystem of highly interconnected
devices referred to as the Internet of Things - IoT. In conjunction, the
advances in machine learning have allowed building models on this ever
increasing amounts of data. Consequently, devices all the way from heavy assets
such as aircraft engines to wearables such as health monitors can all now not
only generate massive amounts of data but can draw back on aggregate analytics
to "improve" their performance over time. Big data analytics has been
identified as a key enabler for the IoT. In this chapter, we discuss various
avenues of the IoT where big data analytics either is already making a
significant impact or is on the cusp of doing so. We also discuss social
implications and areas of concern.Comment: 33 pages. draft of upcoming book chapter in Japkowicz and Stefanowski
(eds.) Big Data Analysis: New algorithms for a new society, Springer Series
on Studies in Big Data, to appea
Features Interaction Detection and Resolution in Smart home systems Using Agent-Based Negotiation Approach
Smart home systems (SHS) have become an increasingly important technology in modern life.
Apart from safety, security, convenience and entertainment, they offer significant potential
benefits for the elderly, disabled and others who cannot live independently. Furthermore,
smart homes are environmentally friendly. SHS functionality is based on perceiving
residentsâ needs and desires, then offering services accordingly. In order to be smart, homes
have to be equipped with sensors, actuators and intelligent devices and appliances, as well as
connectivity and control mechanisms. A typical SHS comprises heterogeneous services and
appliances that are designed by many different developers and which may meet for the first
time in the home network.
The heterogeneous nature of the systems, in addition to the dynamic environment in which
they are deployed, exposes them to undesirable interactions between services, known as
Feature Interaction (FI). Another reason for FI is the divergence between the policies, needs
and desires of different residents. Proposed approaches to FI detection and resolution should
take these different types of interaction into account.
Negotiation is an effective mechanism to address FI, as conflicting features can then
negotiate with each other to reach a compromise agreement. The ultimate goal of this study
is to develop an Agent-Based Negotiation Approach (ABNA) to detect and resolve feature
interaction in a SHS. A smart home architecture incorporating the components of the ABNA
has been proposed. The backbone of the proposed approach is a hierarchy in which features
are organised according to their importance in terms of their functional contribution to the
overall service. Thus, features are categorised according to their priority, those which are
essential for the service to function having the highest priority.
An agent model of the ABNA is proposed and comprehensive definitions of its components
are presented. A computational model of the system also has been proposed which is used to
explain the behaviour of different components when a proposal to perform a task is raised.
To clarify the system requirements and also to aid the design and implementation of its
properties, a formal specification of the ABNA is presented using the mathematical notations
of Calculus of Context-aware Ambient (CCA), then in order to evaluate the approach a case
study is reported, involving two services within the SHS: ventilation and air conditioning.
For the purpose of evaluation, the execution environment of CCA is utilised to execute and
analyse the ABNA
Integration of Legacy Appliances into Home Energy Management Systems
The progressive installation of renewable energy sources requires the
coordination of energy consuming devices. At consumer level, this coordination
can be done by a home energy management system (HEMS). Interoperability issues
need to be solved among smart appliances as well as between smart and
non-smart, i.e., legacy devices. We expect current standardization efforts to
soon provide technologies to design smart appliances in order to cope with the
current interoperability issues. Nevertheless, common electrical devices affect
energy consumption significantly and therefore deserve consideration within
energy management applications. This paper discusses the integration of smart
and legacy devices into a generic system architecture and, subsequently,
elaborates the requirements and components which are necessary to realize such
an architecture including an application of load detection for the
identification of running loads and their integration into existing HEM
systems. We assess the feasibility of such an approach with a case study based
on a measurement campaign on real households. We show how the information of
detected appliances can be extracted in order to create device profiles
allowing for their integration and management within a HEMS
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