Amigo Architecture: Service Oriented Architecture for Intelligent Future In-Home Networks

Abstract

The Amigo architecture follows the paradigm of Service orientation, which allows developing software as services delivered and consumed on demand. The benefit of this approach lies in the looser coupling of the software components making up an application. Discovery mechanisms can be used for finding and selecting the functionality that a client is looking for. Many protocols already exist in the area of Service orientation; the Amigo project has chosen to support a number of the important protocols for discovery and communication in an interoperable way, which allows programmers to select the protocol of their choice while they can still access functionality of services using different methods. This paper gives an introductory overview of the Amigo middleware and shows how this Amigo architecture can provide easy and effective integration of services in today’s home through middleware that dynamically integrates heterogeneous systems and through intelligent user services that improve the usability and attractiveness of the system.