Network Based Control Point for UPnP QoS Architecture

Enabling the coexistence of non-UPnP Devices in UPnP QoS Architecture is an important issue that might have a major impact on the deployment and usability of UPnP in future home networks. The work presented here shows potential issues of placing a non-UPnP Device in the network managed by UPnP QoS. We address this issue by extensions to UPnP QoS Architecture that can prevent non-UPnP Devices from degrading the overall QoS level. The obtained results show that deploying Network Based Control Point service with efficient traffic classifier, improves significantly the end-to-end packet delay characteristics.