Remote Discovery and Management of End-User Devices in Heterogeneous Private Networks

Abstract

End-to-end broadband service delivery requires remote management of devices in the home network, beyond the home gateway (HG). The service provider can only put limited requirements to these of-the-shelf devices, and therefore has to make intelligent use of their given control and management protocols. The authors propose architectures for the unique remote discovery and management of such devices in a highly heterogeneous home network. We suggest to have the HG discovering these devices and to proxy management and control actions to the provider's remote servers. This approach has been recently adopted by the Home Gateway Initiative. A proof-ofconcept is described for the remote management of UPnP devices in the home with a simple TR-069/UPnP proxy on the HG, but the architecture is basically generic for any combination of webservices like protocols.

Using UPnP-CWMP integration for operator-assisted management of domestic LANs

“…Prior to CWMP UPnP component standardization, some work had been done to integrate generic device discovery and control features of UPnP on CWMP environments, using CWMP-UPnP dedicated bridges on domestic gateways [22] [23] [24]. This work was mainly developed in the scope of the MUSE [25] project and has been partially superseded by TR-157, which enabled the inclusion of information about UPnP devices discovered on the domestic LAN on the CWMP data model.…”

User-provided multimedia content distribution architecture in mobile and ubiquitous communication networks

“…The work in Rich et al (2005) proposed a collaborative interface system to help users control traditional home appliances. Recently, Delphinanto et al (2009) installed a UPnP proxy on an Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) gateway (HGI, 2008) to support the remote discovery and management of various devices in highly heterogeneous home networks. This approach uses a single data object to enclose and transmit various statuses and information to the remote server.…”

Performance Evaluation of Heterogeneous Network Based on RED and WRED

“…The Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is one kind of wireless networks [14][15][16][17][18], where the wireless network's nodes communicate by broadcast in multi-hop links [5]. The main problem of this network is the network congestion when data packets are sending from source to destination,the cause of network congestion appears by loss data and retransmission packets which effect on the performance of the network in addition to the delay in queue.…”

“…The term of a heterogeneous network is also referring to the wireless networks when they are using different access technologies. As an example of a wireless heterogeneous network, a wireless network is able to continue its service when switching to a cellular network [5]. In this study, we emphasize the heterogeneous network as wired network connected to a wireless network in different environments.…”