Automatic Service Discovery in UPnP
Liang Tang · ZTE communications · 2006
Along with the popularization of digital home appliances, the home networking technologies have the prospects for a broader market application. It requires the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) technology to fulfill control and data transfer of interconnected devices in a home network. The UPnP technology makes full use of the multiple Internet technology standards including Internet Protocol (IP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) to provide cross-platform automatic service discovery and remote control. UPnP helps implement the flexible and powerful service discovery capability and change complex network device driving into simple remote network control. Moreover, it enables control and data transfer of networked devices.