Device and service discovery in home networks with OSGi

  • Authors:
  • P. Dobrev;D. Famolari;C. Kurzke;B. A. Miller

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present an overview of the Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi™) technology and its associated mechanisms for accessing devices. A technical description of work currently underway to map various industry device and service discovery protocols to OSGi is presented, followed by an illustrative usage case for a home networking environment. Finally, the authors describe the benefits OSGi discovery technology offers in home networking and discuss potential future work in this area.