An Enhanced IOT Gateway in a Broadcast System

Internet of things (IOT) technology increasingly affects backbone network development. Aiming to reduce or weaken such effects on backbone networks from a traffic perspective and attain no discount on functions in a Cobra Net based digital broadcast system, an enhanced IOT gateway and its evaluation system are presented. Based on the prototype evaluation system, experiments demonstrate the IOT gateway not only inherits the conventional functions previously often carried out by a PC platform or a server, but also develops additional abilities to cut down traffic under some cases and provides portable management for the system at the same time. According to the experimental results, it is possible from a traffic perspective to design an enhanced IOT gateway to provide value added service such as file transfer, message function, etc. in addition to high quality audio service by taking advantage of the verified sub-linear information addition mechanism. Such enhanced gateway can be properly adapted to other kinds of applications according to the non-demanding system requirements of the prototype evaluation system and proposed IOTGW design.