An OSGi-based Model for Remote Management of Residential Gateways

Devices connected to the home network demand in many cases services which are located outside the home network. For this reason one of the most important elements in the home network is the Residential Gateway. It will manage all subscribed services, work as a central point to control all devices of the home network and provide an integration platform for various internal and external services. Due to an increasing amount of devices and services that have to be managed, it is necessary to provide a Residential Gateway with an efficient mechanism to support the management of services and thus to allow an automatic configuration of the gateway. This paper proposes a solution based on OSGi and TR-069 to support auto-configuration of a residential gateway located in the home network.