Design and Implementation of Aggregation Framework for UPnP/DLNA Media Server

This paper describes the design and implementation of the aggregation framework for UPnP/DLNA home network. The proposed aggregation service aggregates contents list from UPnP media servers in a home network and present them in a single contents list. The aggregation framework is designed to use as minimum bandwidth as possible in home network and to provide backward compatibility to UPnP media server and control point. The proposed method framework user to navigate contents list in home network and saves effort to find desired content from multiple UPnP media servers.