TITLE:
Design of Network Architecture Using Mobile Gateways for DLNA Devices in Wide Area Networks
AUTHORS:
Hiroaki Goto, Hideki Shimada, Kenya Sato
KEYWORDS:
Network Architecture; DLNA; Mobile Network; Home Appliances
JOURNAL NAME:
Communications and Network,
Vol.4 No.4,
November
30,
2012
ABSTRACT: The prevalence of information appliances supporting DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) such as televisions, recorders, and mobile phones has made it possible to share digital contents (e.g. videos, music and pictures) among appliances connected to a local network. However, DLNA does not let you share contents over different networks via the Internet. In this paper, we propose a network architecture where we adopt our SOAP method to mobile devices and use them as mobile gateways to consume digital contents from remote networks. We also confirm its practicality with a prototype.