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Dynamic service composition in home appliance networks

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The proliferation of networked appliances and the complex functions they provide make it ever harder for a specialist, let alone an ordinary home user, to configure them to provide a given service. The use of flexible middleware architectures, combined with application level services will allow for better exploitation of these features both for the benefit of performance and simplicity. For example, a TV, DVD player and radio all have output speakers and are capable of producing sound, however there is no common framework to harness this functionality. In this paper we address this issue and propose a home network architecture that interconnects home appliances and their associated services using descriptive ontologies to guide the composition process itself. In this network, home appliances are interconnected using a Service Integration Controller (SIC), which discovers and dynamically composes the services they provide and efficiently coordinates the communications between all services independent of the protocol being used. The prototype we implemented uses a home entertainment system as a case study and shows that this framework fulfils the requirements of the system design.

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A. Mingkhwan wishes to thank the Royal Thai Government, for the financial support provided in funding this work. In addition, O. Abuelma'atti wishes to thank the Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS)—Universities UK, for the financial support provided in funding this work.

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Mingkhwan, A., Fergus, P., Abuelma’atti, O. et al. Dynamic service composition in home appliance networks. Multimed Tools Appl 29, 257–284 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-006-0018-2

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