Evaluation of SONICA Compared with UPnP and Jini
Hiroshi Hayakawa, Takahiro Koita, Kenya Sato · 2006
The current move towards a ubiquitous network society is encouraging companies to develop various items in prepara-tion for networking. Accordingly, home appliances that oper-ate by themselves are beginning to be equipped with commu-nication interfaces, and these appliances are leading the way and illustrating next generation services. Thus, some plat-forms for constructing home networks have been proposed, such as DLNA, Jini, and HAVi. Although these platforms are expected to play a large role in the spread of home networks, most of them are based on PC-centric networks. Considering the limited resources of embedded systems, customizability for the end-user, and other specific home appliance require-ments, this situation raises issues of software and hardware complexity, cost, power consumption, and so on. The com-plexity and latitude of services provided largely depends on the architecture of device interaction. In this paper, we pro-pose a new platform named SONICA (Service Oriented Net-work Interoperability for Component Adaptation). SONICA adopts service oriented interoperability using HTTP methods and a more simple and flexible architecture for device interac-tion. We also show the usefulness of SONICA as a platform for home networks by conducting evaluations with the exist-ing platforms; UPnP and Jini.