Remote conformance test system for home bus system (HBS)

Author

Hamabe, R. ; Kawamura, Toshimi ; Murata, Masashi

Author_Institution

Fukuoka Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

46

Issue

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

215

Lastpage

220

Abstract

We have developed a local conformance test system (CTS) for the home bus system (HBS). This paper presents a method to expand this system as a remote CTS for layers 3 and 7 of the HBS standards. We describe a constitution method of the HBS/ISDN gateway in which the two distant HBS terminals can communicate mutually through the ISDN without violating the traditional HBS standards. In addition, the definition formats of the test suites and test cases that are required for the remote conformance test are introduced by using examples of the HBS layer 7. In order to inspect the effectiveness of our proposal, we provide the system construction of the HBS and ISDN, the mutual communication procedure of the gateway, and the layer 7 testing results

Keywords

ISDN; conformance testing; home computing; internetworking; local area networks; system buses; telecommunication equipment testing; telecommunication standards; HBS standards; HBS terminals; HBS/ISDN gateway; LAN; definition formats; home bus system; layer 3; layer 7; mutual communication procedure; remote conformance test system; test cases; test suites; Cities and towns; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.826401

Filename

826401