Enhancing Residential Gateways: OSGi Services Composition

We propose a schema to support the composition of OSGi services as result of orchestrating atomic services at runtime. So, the composite functionality is published in the OSGi service registry, although there is no bundle implementing it, i.e. it is a virtual service. With this proposal the OSGi potentiality increases because of the huge amount of new services that can be offered as a result of appropriate combinations.