Abstract Today, in contrast to the perception of being connected with the electronic world around them, people aren't really as connected as they could be and should be. What if there was not only the concept of a smart house, but a smart habitat, providing individuals with full connectivity access throughout their full range of movement? What if people had access to multiple devices, software applications and data in their habitat from a number of readily accessible, existing user interfaces?...

Abstract This thesis proposes new methodologies for the design and performance evaluation of Storage Area Networks (SANs) infrastructures. Designing a storage area network (SAN) fabric requires devising a set of fiber channel switches and links to connect hosts to their storage devices. The network must be capable of simultaneously meeting specified data flow requirements between multiple host-device pairs. We have presented a detailed analytical view of the key architectural switch...