Developments and Performance Evaluation of Digital-Home Service Delivery & Management Systems

For continuous provision and upgrade of home services, a service delivery & management platform with openness and scalability will cat as the key element. Service delivery & management platforms give us how to manage home gateways and the life cycle of sewices downloaded to home gateways. When service providers register developed service applications to the service platform, the applications will go through the operation of service delivery and be downloaded to the framework of home gateways. Upon the installation, the corresponding service application will be activated to provide service users with services. This paper proposes the structure and functional models of a service delivery and management platform to work out the closeness found in the service provision and management system of home network when individual companies offer services, while presenting functional implementations and the results of system performance evaluation.