Software Management of Heterogeneous Execution Platforms

Time and cost efficient software maintenance is promoted to remotely manage devices distributed inthe home network. In addition to the currently largely adopted monolithic software management, modular multi-tier software management needs are arising in order to respond to the requirements of various market actors using heterogeneous software platforms, e.g., Linux distributions, OSGi, .NET, MIDP. This paper defines a generic software management model, Genex, which provides a homogeneous view over these different types of platforms. The objective is to use a single generic platform that can manage several underlying heterogeneous platforms at a time. The paper also introduces our initial implementations ofthe model and presents some experimentation results.