caa a22 4500 445322160 CHVBK 20180317142707.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00530-010-0202-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00530-010-0202-0 iDTV Home Gateway convergence: an open software model integrating the Ginga middleware and the OSGi framework [Elektronische Daten] [Nairon Viana, Vicente de Lucena Jr.] Among the most promising uses for the interactive digital TV (iDTV) are the ones that enable TV sets to work as the central processing unit of a house. With the convergence of communication technologies and electronics devices in the home environment, a wide range of interactive applications have emerged, allowing to deliver new services to the user. The iDTV processing power has been expanded to support applications that interact with other electronic appliances in the smart home environment, performing the same role of a Home Gateway. Following this goal, this paper discusses the convergence of iDTV with home network at the software level, which facilitates novel combined iDTV home control experiences for users as well as new applications for businesses. Some models that implement convergence of open technologies for working with iDTV applications (DASE/ACAP and MHP middleware) and standards for managing services in a home network (UPnP, DLNA and OSGi framework) are presented. After that, we identify the most relevant features for our country to propose a new collaboration model supported by the Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) and the Brazilian reference middleware, Ginga. The design and implementation of software elements of the model is presented, modifying as little as possible core components of the two platforms and exploring the new Ginga capabilities, related to the procedural (Ginga-J) and declarative (Ginga-NCL) environments. Our work is unique because it combines Ginga with OSGi in a way that is transparent for application developers, while at the same time exploiting the declarative part of the Ginga middleware, thus allowing developers to easily write mixed iDTV home control applications. At the end, we built some validating scenarios for both platforms, allowing Ginga iDTV applications (Ginga-J xlets or Ginga-NCL scripts) to manage services of electronic devices in an integrated Ginga-OSGi home network. Springer-Verlag, 2010 Viana Nairon Faculty of Technology, Electronics and Information Technology R&D Center, CETELI, Federal University of Amazonas-UFAM, Av. Gen. Rodrigo O. J. Ramos, 3000. Campus, Coroado III, CEP 69077-000, Manaus, AM, Brazil aut de Lucena Jr. Vicente Faculty of Technology, Electronics and Information Technology R&D Center, CETELI, Federal University of Amazonas-UFAM, Av. Gen. Rodrigo O. J. Ramos, 3000. Campus, Coroado III, CEP 69077-000, Manaus, AM, Brazil aut Multimedia Systems Springer-Verlag 17/1(2011-02-01), 35-49 0942-4962 17:1<35 2011 17 530 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-010-0202-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-010-0202-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Viana Nairon Faculty of Technology, Electronics and Information Technology R&D Center, CETELI, Federal University of Amazonas-UFAM, Av. Gen. Rodrigo O. J. Ramos, 3000. Campus, Coroado III, CEP 69077-000, Manaus, AM, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- de Lucena Jr Vicente Faculty of Technology, Electronics and Information Technology R&D Center, CETELI, Federal University of Amazonas-UFAM, Av. Gen. Rodrigo O. J. Ramos, 3000. Campus, Coroado III, CEP 69077-000, Manaus, AM, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Multimedia Systems Springer-Verlag 17/1(2011-02-01), 35-49 0942-4962 17:1<35 2011 17 530 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer