Gateway technologies for home network and their implementations

Author

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

Author_Institution

Corp. Res. & Dev., Toshiba Corp., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

36982

Firstpage

175

Lastpage

180

Abstract

We propose two gateway architectures. The first one is the home gateway, which interconnects home networks and the public (access) network. We show its requirements and software design. We implemented an experimental home gateway based on a Web server enhanced with Java facilities. It interconnects the Internet and the home networks (IEEE1394 AV network and the ECHONET home automation network). It also has a real time MP1394 transcoding function which transcodes AV data on IEEE1394 into MPEG4 video. It provides the capability of remote control of the home, and AV data transmission/translation capabilities. The second one is the wireless gateway. We show the background with respect to the wireless gateway and its design. The key issue is to develop interconnectivity between wired and wireless networks, and then we show our implementation of it. It interconnects IEEE1394 and 802.11b 2.4 GHz band high-speed wireless network, and transmits AV control commands and high-quality AV data

Keywords

Internet; Java; file servers; home automation; internetworking; real-time systems; telecontrol; video coding; wireless LAN; AV control commands; AV data; AV data transmission/translation capabilities; ECHONET home automation network; IEEE1394 AV network; Internet; Java facilities; MPEG4 video; Web server; gateway architectures; gateway technologies; high-quality AV data; high-speed wireless network; home gateway; home network; home networks; public access network; real time MP1394 transcoding function; remote control; software design; wireless gateway; Automatic control; Computer architecture; Home automation; IP networks; Java; MPEG 4 Standard; Software design; Transcoding; Web server; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems Workshop, 2001 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Mesa, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1080-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDCS.2001.918702

Filename

918702