The Flexible Service Composition Framework for Networked Appliances

Developments in information technology and networking are rapidly driving the enhancement of networked appliances in the home environment. Users can request services from networked appliances via the home network framework and makes it possible to provide new concomitant capability by composing a virtual appliance. However, due to the vast number of home networked appliances and their complicated services, such composition can prove challenging for the non-technical home user. In this paper, we present the components of our framework for providing automatic service composition in networked appliances that uses both centralized and decentralized mechanisms the hardware implementation details for the framework, and demonstrate our hardware initial implementation.