4. Autonomic Home Gateway
Home connectivity is evolving from narrow-band to broadband
Networked and heterogeneous home appliance and computing devices
Various applications for environment monitoring, health care, entertainment etc.
A need for highly-capable residential gateway
Versatile router for connectivity, QoS, security, integration, operation and management.
Handle ever-increasing complexity in home network with autonomy
1. with network operators deploying technologies to offer a larger bandwidth with DSL, cable or optic fiber technologies.
2. allowing the right device or application to connect to the right service platform with right quality of service, recognizing and potentially uniting device capabilities, as well as playing a role in the home network to join device capabilities and offer customers a better “integrated home environment”. Moreover, such home gateway should promote autonomy of the home network, with minimum intervention and administration efforts of humans - a level of transparency that features self-optimization, self-configuration, self-healing and self-protection etc.