A Scheme for Location Transparent Access to Networked Consumer Electronics

These days, devices known as "networked consumer electronics" (NCE), are being manufactured with installed IP functions. If a fixed address is embedded in an NCE, control, maintenance, and monitoring of the device is facilitated. We propose a scheme to enable an NCE with an embedded fixed IPv6 address to communicate with any node through a collaboration of the NCE and a home network gateway. This scheme reduces the development cost and processing load of NCEs as well as the cost of managing IP addresses of NCEs by using fixed IPv6 addresses.