Title: A distributed and efficient system architecture for smart home

Authors: Shushan Hu; Cunchen Tang; Feng Liu; Xiaojun Wang

Addresses: International School of Software, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China; School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland ' International School of Software, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China ' International School of Software, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China ' School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

Abstract: To improve the efficiency of deploying and calling of home services, this paper proposes a distributed service-oriented architecture (D-SOA) for a smart-home system. In this proposed D-SOA, a distributed bundle is designed for remote deploying of bundles and remote calling of services with open services gateway initiative (OSGi) architecture. Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology is adopted to improve communication efficiency between terminals of a smart-home system. A specific interaction mechanism is designed to transmit data, using the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and the extensible markup language (XML). Performance analysis shows that the proposed D-SOA achieves up to 37.5% reduction in network load, and 65% improvement in response time, compared to service central system architectures.

Keywords: IoT; internet of things; smart homes; distributed systems; SOA; service-oriented architecture; OSGi; open services gateway initiative; home services; peer-to-peer; P2P technology; communication efficiency; HTTP; XML; network load; response time.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2016.074701

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2016 Vol.20 No.2, pp.119 - 130

Received: 08 Jul 2015
Accepted: 08 Jul 2015

Published online: 14 Feb 2016 *

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