A cooperative web framework of jini into OSGi-based open home gateway

Abstract

The administration of heterogeneous networks with many embedded equipments and mobile devices is a hard and time-consuming task. Today's methods only provide static configuration files and make the addition and removal of devices a manual chore. The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) specification defines a service-oriented framework for use in residential gateways. OSGi framework acts as a gateway from the Internet to consumer devices attached to the residence's home-area network. And Jini is an infrastructure for spontaneous and ad hoc service networks. It allows users to find services which consumer devices provide without prior knowledge of their network environments. The paper presents a cooperative web framework for the integration of Jini into OSGi open home gateway which can provide much easier, more intelligent and powerful home network control service. It can federate home-area network devices and services in secure ways by Internet. This paper puts forward relative design and reference implementation. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.