BROWSE
Detail
Conference Paper
General Middleware Bridge to Support Device Interoperability on Different Middlewares
Cited 4 time in 
Share 
Share
- Authors
- Hark-Jin Lee, Young-Sung Son, Jun-Hee Park, Kyeong-Deok Moon, Jae-Cheol Ryou
- Issue Date
- 2011-05
- Citation
- International Conference on Computers, Networks, Systems and Industrial Engineering (CNSI) 2011, pp.302-307
- Language
- English
- Type
- Conference Paper
- Abstract
- In this paper, we investigate an integrated architecture to support interoperability among heterogeneous middlewares on home networks. We propose and implement a general middleware bridge to support device interoperability on different middlewares for efficient home networks. The IWFEngine(interworking function engine) architecture provides an interface for identifying and utilizing services among devices using simple rules in other to support interoperability among heterogeneous middlewares. Through the registered rules, a local middleware message and a standard message are changed into each other. Unlike existing integrated middleware architectures, the IWFEngine architecture improves efficiency, and convenient adaptor development is possible through simple rules and by using local middleware messages. By this configuration, a conversion rule for exchanging messages between devices on various middlewares is described which does not require modification of the corresponding middleware, and operations can be performed in accordance with the existing corresponding middleware mechanism. Finally, the overhead incurred by a centralized and integrated middleware architecture can be reduced by distributing adaptors into multiple devices. © 2011 IEEE.
- KSP Keywords
- Home Network, Integrated architecture, Middleware Architecture, Simple rules, multiple devices