Enhancing Residential Gateways: OSGi Service Composition

Author

Diaz Redondo, R.P. ; Vilas, A.F. ; Cabrer, M.R. ; Pazos Arias, J.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Telematics Eng., Vigo Univ.

Volume

53

Issue

1

fYear

2007

fDate

2/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

87

Lastpage

95

Abstract

We propose a scheme to support the composition of OSGi services as result of orchestrating atomic services at run-time. 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. To specify the service composition we propose a totally transparent BPEL-style solution which does not break the OSGi standard. However, the syntactic matchmaking provided by the OSGi standard does not enable a flexible enough automatic service composition. Thus, we propose to define a semantic OSGi platform, which combined with the BPEL-style solution fits all the OSGi service composition requirements.

Keywords

home automation; home computing; internetworking; software architecture; BPEL-style solution; Business Process Execution Language; OSGi service composition; Open Service Gateway Initiative; residential gateways; semantic OSGi platform; Acceleration; Buildings; Communication system control; Control systems; Proposals; Protocols; Runtime; Service oriented architecture; Smart homes; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2007.339507

Filename

4140904