Evaluation of technological and socio-economic issues affecting the deployment of home networks: evidence from the ICT-OMEGA project |
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Authors: | Georgia Dede Thomas Kamalakis Dimitris Varoutas Rafael Gonzalez Fuentetaja Jean Philippe Javaudin |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Informatics and Telecommunications,National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,Athens,Greece;2.Department of Informatics and Telematics,Harokopio University of Athens,Athens,Greece;3.Telefonica I&D,Madrid,Spain;4.France Telecom, Orange Labs,Cesson-Sevigne,France |
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Abstract: | Home networks (HNs) are rapidly becoming the next battlefield for various telecom carriers and companies. The European project
ICT-OMEGA seeks to enable the convergence of the diverse wireless and wireline technologies at the Medium Access Control (MAC)
layer. In such a world of converging, heterogeneous HN technologies, system designers needs to take into account several technical,
economic and social aspects that will effect the development and the rate of adoption of HNs by the general public. Careful
roadmapping is required to ensure a smooth transition from existing to the next generation HN systems. The objective of this
paper is to provide an evaluation of the key technological and socio-economic issues, which may affect the deployment of HNs.
Within the OMEGA project, such issues are addressed using surveys conducted by the project experts, designed based on the
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). In this paper, the results of the surveys, conducted using pairwise comparison (which is
an important ingredient of AHP) are presented. Several critical aspects are identified and their importance is weighted. The
conclusions drawn are important for the overall roadmapping effort of future HN technologies. |
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