A Hierarchical Middleware Architecture for Efficient Home Control through an IPv6-Based Global Network

A cyber physical systems (CPS) are deeply embedded systems that can be applied to home devices, medical equipments, cars, and etc. Since it is expected that a CPS system will be integrated with other CPSes designed for various areas to ultimately create a global CPS network covering a global network, IPv6 is suitable to these large-scaled integrated network environments. This paper proposes a hierarchical middleware architecture for an efficient search and control of home devices on an IPv6-based global network from anywhere through smart phones along with a new mechanism intended to drastically reduce the number of messages that are generated for searching devices.