Wireless gateway for wireless home AV network and its implementation

Author

Saito, Takeshi ; Tomoda, Ichiro ; Takabatake, Yoshiaki ; Teramoto, Keiichi ; Fujimoto, Kensaku

Author_Institution

Corp. Res. & Dev. Center, Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki, Japan

Volume

47

Issue

3

fYear

2001

fDate

8/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

496

Lastpage

501

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a wireless gateway for a wireless home AV network. We show the requirements the wireless gateway must satisfy in order to make practice the realization of wireless AV equipment and interconnectivity between wired (IEEE 1394) and wireless networks and compare possible architectures. Then, we propose a “gateway” approach, which realizes both simple implementation and legacy device support. We show our implementation of the wireless gateway, which transmits AV control commands and high-quality AV data, and supports auto-configuration capability. It also has a real-time transcoding function which transcodes DV data on IEEE 1394 into MPEG-2 video on a wireless network

Keywords

audio-visual systems; home automation; indoor radio; telecontrol; video coding; wireless LAN; AV control commands; DV data; IEEE 1394; MPEG-2 video; architectures; auto-configuration capability; gateway approach; high-quality AV data; interconnectivity; legacy device support; real-time transcoding function; wireless gateway; wireless home AV network; Audio-visual systems; Cables; Data communication; Digital audio broadcasting; Digital video broadcasting; Home appliances; Home automation; Transcoding; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.964138

Filename

964138