Recent Activities in PUCC and Its Application to Integrated Home Network Control and Management

We have been developing and standardizing middleware technologies for home network control from a mobile phone in Peer-to-peer Universal Computing Consortium (PUCC), which is a consortium towards de facto standardization. We discussed issues for unified home network control from a mobile phone. We describe the peer-to-peer/overlay networking technologies developed by PUCC, to resolve those issues. We describe recent PUCC activities, which include the development of PUCC specifications Release 1, development of prototypes implementing PUCC protocols, demonstrations of such prototypes at international leading tradeshows such as CES and CeBIT, and activities towards international standardization. PUCC started a new project for integrated home network control and management in 2009, based on those activities.