A Java-based home network middleware architecture supporting IEEE1394 and TCP/IP

Author

Ku, Tai-Yeon ; Park, Dong-Hwan ; Moon, Kyeong-Deok

Author_Institution

Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejon, South Korea

Volume

48

Issue

3

fYear

2002

fDate

8/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

496

Lastpage

504

Abstract

IEEE1394 is a standard interface protocol for digital multimedia consumer devices and it also serves to construct home entertainment networks. To integrate home data and home entertainment networks, this paper proposes a Java-based middleware architecture supporting IEEE1394 and TCP/IP for digital home entertainment networks. The proposed architecture is able to provide interoperability between 1394-based services and TCP-based services, and accommodates multimedia service requirements in home network environments having various protocols and devices. In this architecture, we introduce a queueing mechanism to communicate with TCP/IP and IEEE1394, and it is fully compatible with Jini™ network technology using TCP/IP.

Keywords

Java; client-server systems; consumer electronics; distributed object management; entertainment; home computing; multimedia communication; protocols; queueing theory; telecommunication computing; transport protocols; IEEE1394; Java-based middleware architecture; Jini network technology; TCP/IP; consumer electronics; digital multimedia consumer devices; home data networks; home entertainment networks; home network middleware architecture; queueing mechanism; Computer architecture; Consumer electronics; Home automation; Java; Middleware; Multimedia systems; Protocols; Quality of service; Streaming media; TCPIP;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2002.1037034

Filename

1037034