A framework supporting interaction of iDTV applications and CE devices in home network

Tkachenko, Dmitry; Kornet, N.; Dodson, Adam; Li, Luyang; Khandelwal, R.

doi:10.1109/ccnc.2005.1405249

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“…In [5], it is presented a framework, called DTV-HNF (Digital TV -Home Network Framework), which manages requests from iDTV applications to access services of a device connected in the home network through the use of services plugins. In these approaches, the frameworks are located in separated environments, depending on the communication systems to work, and the iDTV applications access the device services by a Broadcast Carrousel.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Convergence Proposal between the Brazilian Middleware for iDTV and Home Network Platforms

Viana

Maia

Lucena

et al. 2009

2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference

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Digital TV Systems open a new world of possibilities. Since December 2007 the Brazilian people has been experiencing this new technology. Among the most promising applications are the ones that enable TV-Sets to work as the central processing unit of a house. This paper presents the most recent strategies to implement convergence models between Digital TV Systems and Residential Gateway Platforms. The first goal of this paper is showing how the already proposed models implement convergent scenarios between the two involved worlds: at one side the function-oriented MHP (Multimedia Home Platform) middleware, a set of standardized Java APIs for Digital TV and, at the Home Networks side, the services-oriented OSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative) framework. Our final goal is to identify the most relevant features for our country in order to propose a new collaboration model supported by OSGi and the Brazilian declarative reference middleware (Ginga-NCL). This model is validated on a convergent scenario Ginga-NCL-OSGi.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Convergence Proposal between the Brazilian Middleware for iDTV and Home Network Platforms

Viana

Maia

Lucena

et al. 2009

2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference

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“…A single framework named DTV-HNF (digital TVhome network framework) is presented in [25], managing requests from iDTV applications for accessing services of iDTV Home Gateway convergence 37 networked devices through the use of services plug ins. A service plug in is a special software unit loaded in the STB through the broadcast TV network.…”

Section: Integrating Idtv and Home Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In [24,25,27], the frameworks are located in separate environments, depending on the communication system to work (see Table 1), and the iDTV applications look in the network for the device that provides the desired service. A significant disadvantage of these methods is that they do not support a bidirectional communication, i.e., only iDTV applications can access devices' services.…”

Section: Integrating Idtv and Home Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

iDTV Home Gateway convergence: an open software model integrating the Ginga middleware and the OSGi framework

Viana

Lucena

2010

Multimedia Systems

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Among the most promising uses for the interactive digital TV (iDTV) are the ones that enable TV sets to work as the central processing unit of a house. With the convergence of communication technologies and electronics devices in the home environment, a wide range of interactive applications have emerged, allowing to deliver new services to the user. The iDTV processing power has been expanded to support applications that interact with other electronic appliances in the smart home environment, performing the same role of a Home Gateway. Following this goal, this paper discusses the convergence of iDTV with home network at the software level, which facilitates novel combined iDTV home control experiences for users as well as new applications for businesses. Some models that implement convergence of open technologies for working with iDTV applications (DASE/ACAP and MHP middleware) and standards for managing services in a home network (UPnP, DLNA and OSGi framework) are presented. After that, we identify the most relevant features for our country to propose a new collaboration model supported by the Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) and the Brazilian reference middleware, Ginga. The design and implementation of software elements of the model is presented, modifying as little as possible core components of the two platforms and exploring the new Ginga capabilities, related to the procedural (Ginga-J) and declarative (Ginga-NCL) environments. Our work is unique because it combines Ginga with OSGi in a way that is transparent for application developers, while at the same time exploiting the declarative part of the Ginga middleware, thus allowing developers to easily write mixed iDTV home control applications. At the end, we built some validating scenarios for both platforms, allowing Ginga iDTV applications (Ginga-J xlets or Ginga-NCL scripts) to manage services of electronic devices in an integrated Ginga-OSGi home network.

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“…OSGi platforms may be deployed at broadband modems, digital TV set top boxes (STB), personal computers, game consoles, etc. Applications of interactive digital television may also interact with applications installed on OSGi devices [6], [7].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Usage of MPEG-4 Video on OSGi Devices

Tkachenko

Lagunov

Trofimov

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2006 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics

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Deployment of OSGi platform on Consumer Electronics (CE) devices may be a reasonable solution that allows making flexible dynamic configuration of software environment on devices with limited resources. In this paper we developed a prototype that shows how OSGi downloadable software components (bundles) can make encoding, streaming and decoding of MPEG-4 video.Evaluation of the prototype performance shows that the most critical factor that affects the quality of low bit rate MPEG-4 video is encoding time so that usage of effective hardware encoders may be necessary in many CE devices 1 .

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A framework supporting interaction of iDTV applications and CE devices in home network

Cited by 9 publications

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A Convergence Proposal between the Brazilian Middleware for iDTV and Home Network Platforms

A Convergence Proposal between the Brazilian Middleware for iDTV and Home Network Platforms

iDTV Home Gateway convergence: an open software model integrating the Ginga middleware and the OSGi framework

Usage of MPEG-4 Video on OSGi Devices

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