UPnP IPv4/IPv6 bridge for home networking environment

Author

Li, Chung-Sheng ; Huang, Yueh-Min ; Chao, Han-Chieh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Dong Hwa Univ., Hualien

Volume

54

Issue

4

fYear

2008

fDate

11/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1651

Lastpage

1655

Abstract

The purposes of universal plug and play (UPnP) are to allow consumer electronics, intelligent appliances (IA) and mobile devices from different vendors to be Internet connected seamlessly and installed easily at home. Also, as the IPv6 environment becomes inevitable, IPv6 ready IA are more and more popular. However, the fact is that IPv4 UPnP control points cannot communicate with IPv6 UPnP devices or vice versa. In this paper, we proposed an UPnP IPv4/IPv6 bridge for control points and devices can interoperate between IPv4 and IPv6 protocols; that is, they can communicate with each other although some of them support only IPv4 and others support IPv6.

Keywords

IP networks; consumer electronics; home computing; mobile handsets; Internet; UPnP IPv4/IPv6 bridge; consumer electronic; control point; home networking environment; intelligent appliances; mobile devices; universal plug and play; Bridges; Chaotic communication; Consumer electronics; Home appliances; Home automation; Humans; IP networks; Intelligent networks; Plugs; Protocols; Bridge; IPv4; IPv6; UPnP;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Location

11/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2008.4711216

Filename

4711216