The Converged Protocol for Management of Heterogeneous Devices

The development of network convergence and multimedia service are driving the management of heterogeneous devices. According to the disadvantages of the existing device management mechanisms, a converged protocol for the management of heterogeneous devices is proposed to facilitate the convergence of service. Following the top-down model, the converged device management protocol (CDMP) is designed with the characteristics of the smallest Meta-Method set, the data synchronization mechanism, and application independence. Different from the existing DM protocols, CDMP can satisfy any management requirements of mobile and fixed devices with strong extensibility of Meta-Method set and common message structure. Then CDMP is validated by illustrating the configuration procedure based on CDMP. Finally, the simulation is implemented to evaluate CDMP performance in terms of message traffic.