Design of a Home Network .pptVIP

11/13/00 Design of a Home Network Rajesh Rajamani (raj@) Home networking - Applications Computer Interconnection Control Home networking technologies – Physical layer Phoneline Powerline Ethernet Wireless We wanted … A Dynamic network Configuration Sharing resources Maintanence Control - from anywhere, anytime Design issues System Software Hardware Integrating hardware with software Connection Technology Jini UPnP Choices – Operating system Linux Unix variants Windows Guiding principle - Source availability, Synopsys’ network Choices - Hardware Verilog - Popular in North America VHDL - Popular in Europe Guiding principle - Time to Market Verification Co-verification using Eaglei Link models Instruction set simulator (ISS) Live Target Link model Full visibility into the s/w execution process Can test functionality of the design ISS model Full visibility into the processor and can execute assembly instrs Good for debugging device drivers Finally, each device The Network Jini Connection Technology Java centric, distributed system designed for simplicity, flexibility and federation Members of the federation agree on basic notions of trust, administration, identification and policy Components - Services, Infrastructure and programming model Components Key concepts Lookup Service - Central bootstrapping mechanism for the system; helps find and resolve available services; service added to a lookup service by a pair of protocols - Discovery and Join Leasing - Grant of guaranteed services over a time period Security – JDK 1.2 Security model Key concepts Service object contains the Java programming language interface for the service, including the methods that users and applications will invoke to execute the service along with any other descriptive attributes. Discovery and Join Discovery - Process by which Jini applications find the lookup services that serve their communities. Two forms - Serendipitous and hard wired. Service