A reference model for the consumption of protected content in home networks

Current standardization efforts in proposing home network reference models focus too much on the underlying network communication technology. They all present a lack of a higher-level functionality abstraction, that the present industry-driven paper intends to fill, by proposing a reference model aimed at abstracting the logic of the consumption of protected content in home networks. The main characteristic of this reference model will be to become applicable to a wide variety of home network configurations, independently from the underlying network technology. In that configuration the original contribution of this paper is to propose a novel approach to modeling home networks by extracting a common logic from a variety of physical implementations.