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A survey of techniques for remote access to home networks and resources

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Consumer Electronics devices are becoming network enabled, and along with smart phones and personal computers, they are all interconnected in home networks with broadband Internet connectivity. This sets the opportunity of making the home network, its devices and content accessible from the Internet, allowing the home owners to remotely access their connected home any time, any place, using any device. This paper provides a holistic overview of the “Remote Acces” topic, presenting all the problems and issues that make it challenging in different contexts, and most importantly analyzing six techniques and methods for enabling the remote access scenarios. It is a guide created by the combination of scientific research, extensive industrial experiences and first hand participation in relevant standardization activities.

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    Petros Belimpasakis

  2. Media Laboratory, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland

    Vlad Stirbu

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Belimpasakis, P., Stirbu, V. A survey of techniques for remote access to home networks and resources. Multimed Tools Appl 70, 1899–1939 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-012-1221-y

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