Home gateway architecture for generic multimedia services

Author

Cucos, A. ; Corcoran, P.M. ; Bigioi, P. ; Hanrahan, R.B.W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Galway, UK

fYear

1999

fDate

22-24 June 1999

Firstpage

284

Lastpage

285

Abstract

Development of a prototype residential gateway based on low-cost off-the-shelf PC components is described. The goal is to show how such a gateway might operate to satisfy the requirements of a broad spectrum of customer requirements, from basic remote metering to full multimedia services. It features network enabled BIOS extensions or OS kernel extensions, which allow most of the gateway operating system modules and services to be loaded remotely from a head-server over a network link.

Keywords

Internet; home computing; microcomputer applications; multimedia computing; network operating systems; network servers; telemetry; Internet; OS kernel extensions; customer requirements; generic multimedia services; head-server; home gateway architecture; low-cost components; network enabled BIOS extensions; network link; off-the-shelf PC components; operating system modules; prototype residential gateway; remote metering; Computer architecture; Hardware; Home automation; ISDN; Internet; Kernel; Multimedia systems; Operating systems; Software maintenance; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, 1999. ICCE. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5123-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.1999.785267

Filename

785267