A framework for self-configuring devices using TR-069

Abstract

Communication network technologies have been evolving extensively in the late decades. The innovations brought in the domain increase the network capabilities and open new horizons to creating novel services. In today's heterogeneous environment, service management has become an everyday challenge to service providers. Important efforts have been deployed to innovate in the exploitation of devices in restricted area networks such as the Home Area Network (HAN). In this paper, we propose a framework for self-configuration of devices within the HAN. We propose a self-configuration architecture based on the IBM MAPE-K autonomic control loop. We make use of the Broadband forum CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP), also known as TR-069, in the implementation of our architecture to support the applicability. A video sharing and streaming scenario is implemented and used to evaluate our framework.