The Bridge Component for UPnP and Bluetooth for a Wearable Computing Environment

Author

Jo, Tae-Wook ; You, Yong-Duck ; Choi, Hoon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Chungnam Nat. Univ., Daejeon

fYear

2008

fDate

9-13 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Home networks in the future will be complex systems of the BANs (body area networks) and the PANs (personal area networks), and will be composed of various wireless devices. Therefore, the self-discovery protocols that serve to control and maintain these devices are crucial. This paper proposes a bridge service that extends the capacity of widely used and IP based UPnP discovery protocol to a non-IP wireless device (Bluetooth). The bridge service has been implemented in an NPnP middleware component for a wearable computing environment in the BAN.

Keywords

Bluetooth; IP networks; transport protocols; wearable computers; BAN; Bluetooth; IP based UPnP discovery protocol; NPnP middleware component; body area networks; bridge component; bridge service; non-IP wireless device; wearable computing environment; Bluetooth; Body sensor networks; Bridges; Computer networks; Home computing; Java; Middleware; Plugs; Wearable computers; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, 2008. ICCE 2008. Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1458-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1459-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2008.4588069

Filename

4588069