Secure Real-Time Integration of Services in a OSGi Distributed Environment

This paper presents a service oriented architecture for real-time integration of services, how to distribute them in a local domain and how to define a secure way of accessing resources using users' and services' authorization and authentication. This work take advantage of previous European R&D projects focused on del.ivering applications and utilities in embedded real-time environments and the convergence of different worlds like Internet and digital TV.