Smart Home Communication Technologies and Applications: Wireless Protocol Assessment for Home Area Network Resources

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as such, it results in a direct correlation with the quantity of processing capacity that it is necessary. 
Consequently, high performance media processing resources and high capacity networked storage are 
also required for large-scale UHD HAMNs. Additionally, there is a paradigm shift headed for
user-centric HAMNs. 
The purpose of this paradigm is to set up flexible customizable network-based media communication 
platforms that support distinct media users and tools. In addition, it allows the creation and generation 
of new media content and services on-the-fly, and supports the transmission of content across several 
media and network environments [32,33]. 
T. Li
 et al.
developed a framework for resource allocation in a Cognitive Digital Home (CDH) with 
a multiplicity of radio access technologies (RAT) such as cognitive radios and legacy radio devices 
supporting heterogeneous applications [11]. T.-H. Yu and S.-C. Lo designed and implemented an 
integrated architecture that supports the outdoor remote control to home devices and the sharing of 
digital media among indoor and outdoor devices [34]. Y.-C. Yu
et al.
proposed a smart furniture 
prototype for the smart home, a magic mirror table that has a camera to capture the viewer’s facial 
expression. The system is able to determine the emotion of the viewer and then act accordingly to 
alleviate his/her emotion [35]. 
2.2.5. Surveillance and Security 
The implementation of communication technologies for essential surveillance and home automation 
leads to a wide range of opportunities as well as technical challenges. 
Surveillance and Security System require a robust configuration in order to collect meaningful, 
reliable, and accurate data. As a result, they do have a need for adequate support for the QoS required 
by the delay-sensitive and bandwidth-intensive multimedia data that they currently do not display. 
These restrictions do not significantly impact delay-insensitive data acquisition but can have 
considerable consequences for the real-time surveillance or monitoring applications as they often lead 
to insufficient or improper measurements and erroneous event detection [36]. 
Real-time multiuser multimedia applications like monitoring or surveillance using multiple cameras 
have recently begun to be proliferated over flexible and low-cost multi-hop wireless networks. In these 
types of multimedia systems, several sources share the limited network resources and together transmit 
the captured video streams to a remote central monitor [36]. 
There are many recent studies dealing with security issues in a smart home infrastructure.
N. Komninos
 et al.
classified the main risks of interaction between entities in a smart home and smart 
grid environments and proposed promising security countermeasures given the specific security goals [37]. 
Kim
 et al.
proposed a smart system using both face recognition and sound localization techniques to 
identify foreign faces through a door phone [38]. K.-Y. Lian
et al.
proposed a smart home safety 
handwriting recognition technology to confirm user identity and to manage door security using a 
recurrent neural network with associative memory [39]. T. Li
et al.
considered the architecture and 
design of a secure access gateway for Home Area Networks (HAN), so that real-time secure monitoring 
and control of the devices could be achieved through a smart phone [12].