Implementation of The DLNA Proxy System for Sharing Home Media Contents

Abstract

The paper proposes a methodology to provide services for accessing and sharing various media contents, those are distributed over consumer electronics (CEs) in the home network or the Internet. To do so, we propose a DLNA proxy system architecture (PSA) which helps to gather various media information and share media contents from the distributed AV devices in the home. The information exchange of the AV media devices is based on the SIP notification mechanism with its extensions to allowing media contents sharing within and outside of the home network. The proxy system is implemented on the home server which acts as a gateway for establishing connections between the home and external networks.