Secure and Scalable Multimedia Sharing
between Smart Homes

Raihan Ul Islam¹, Mischa Schmidt², Hans-Joerg Kolbe², and Karl Andersson<sup>3+

1</sup>TU Darmstadt, Hochschulstrasse 10, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany

²NEC Europe Ltd, Kurfürsten-Anlage 36, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany

³Pervasive and Mobile Computing Laboratory

Luleå University of Technology, SE-931 87 Skellefteå, Sweden

Abstract

The smartphone revolution together with cost-efficient wireless access technologies has lately changed the landscape for smart home environments to a large extent. Moreover, large flat screens, new capturing devices, and large digital media libraries have also changed the way smart home environments are used. We present and evaluate an architecture for multimedia sharing in such environments. End-users can, by authenticating their terminals with a node in the home or visited environment easily gain access to various types of resources at home while roaming to other people’s home networks. This is achieved by using the infrastructure provided by the operator.

Keywords: Mobility, Smart Home Environments, Fixed Mobile Convergence, Media delivery, AAA architecture, Security, Scalability, Fault Tolerance.

+: Corresponding author: Karl Andersson

Tel: +46-910-585364, Email: karl.andersson@ltu.se

Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA),

Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 79-93, September 2014 [pdf]