A Convergence Proposal between the Brazilian Middleware for iDTV and Home Network Platforms

Author

Viana, Nairon S. ; Maia, Orlewilson B. ; De Lucena Junior, Vicente F. ; Pinto, Luciano C.

Author_Institution

CETELI - Electron. & Inf. Technol. R&D Center, Fed. Univ. of Amazonas, Manaus

fYear

2009

fDate

10-13 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Digital TV systems open a new world of possibilities. Since December 2007 the Brazilian people has been experiencing this new technology. Among the most promising applications are the ones that enable TV-sets to work as the central processing unit of a house. This paper presents the most recent strategies to implement convergence models between digital TV systems and residential gateway platforms. The first goal of this paper is showing how the already proposed models implement convergent scenarios between the two involved worlds: at one side the function-oriented MHP (multimedia home platform) middleware, a set of standardized Java APIs for digital TV and, at the home networks side, the services-oriented OSGi (open services gateway initiative) framework. Our final goal is to identify the most relevant features for our country in order to propose a new collaboration model supported by OSGi and the Brazilian declarative reference middleware (Ginga-NCL). This model is validated on a convergent scenario Ginga-NCL-OSGi.

Keywords

digital television; home computing; interactive television; middleware; multimedia communication; open systems; Brazilian middleware; digital TV systems; home network platforms; iDTV; multimedia home platform middleware; open services gateway initiative; residential gateway platforms; services-oriented OSGi; Central Processing Unit; Collaboration; Convergence; Digital TV; HDTV; Home automation; Java; Middleware; Multimedia systems; Proposals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. CCNC 2009. 6th IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2308-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2309-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784976

Filename

4784976