Design and implementation SIP and Agent-based home Networked Appliances system

Abstract

Networked Appliances (NAs) is a new research field and it comes under the concept of home networking. The SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and Agent-based NA system proposed in the thesis aims to build a smart system that provides the capability of autonomous and asynchronous control and management of NAs from both inside and outside of a home network. The SIP technology makes the NAs system well adapted for communications over the Internet; and the leading-edge agent technology presents a new approach to empower users with advanced information processing methods and reduce the workload of users. In the proposed system, various agents cooperate with each other to fulfill different tasks on behalf of homeowners. The system architecture and features are presented and a prototype model is implemented. The performance of the system is discussed to verify and validate the system design.