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An Architecture of UPnP Bridge for Non-lP Devices with Heterogeneous Interfaces  

Kang, Jeong-Seok (강원대학교 전자통신공학과 산업정보통신 연구실)
Choi, Yong-Soon (강원대학교 전자통신공학과 산업정보통신 연구실)
Park, Hong-Seong (강원대학교 IT특성화학부 전기전자공학부 산업정보통신 연구실)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.32, no.12B, 2007 , pp. 779-789 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents an architecture of UPnP Bridge for interconnecting Non-lP devices with heterogeneous network interfaces to UPnP devices on UPnP networks. The proposed UPnP Bridge provides a Virtual UPnP device that performs generic UPnP Device's functionalities on behalf of Non-lP device. This paper defines 3 types of descriptions, Device Description, Message Field Description, and Extended UPnP Service Description in order to reduce the amount of effort required to connect a non-lP device with a new interface or message format to UPnP network. By these three types of descriptions and Message conversion module, developers for Non-lP devices can easily connect the devices to UPnP network without additional programming. So UPnP control point controls Non-lP devices as generic UPnP device. Some experiments validate the proposed architecture, which are performed on a test bed consisting of UPnP network the proposed bridge, and non-lP devices with CAN and RS232 interfaces.
Keywords
UPnP Bridge; Message Field Description; Virtual UPnP Device; Extended UPnP Service Description; Non-IP Sink;
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