Home station, novel architecture of home gateway and its implementations

Although a number of home networking solutions such as wired and wireless technologies, middleware technologies, and home gateway technologies have been emerging, none of them dominates the home networking market with satisfying users' demand on higher quality services. Especially in the home networking environments where diverse technologies coexist, the digital convergence is the important functionality that a home gateway should support. In this paper, Home Station, a novel architecture of home gateway, that can solve this problem and serve various functions including process of multimedia data, control and monitor of devices, discovery of devices, and management of home network, is proposed.