JoWUA

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. Endusers 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.