Content management and protection are important features of emerging home network technologies. In this paper, we present the design of Content Protection for Workplace Client Technology (CPWCT), a novel secure content management system based on the multiagent paradigm that transforms a P2P home network in a secure virtual multimedia device. In CPWCT, devices in a home network are organized in a secure P2P cluster leveraging the broadcast encryption based xCP Cluster Protocol. Based on this torus, a distributed content management mechanism for purely P2P home networks is implemented. This mechanism includes lightweight secure streaming and RDF based capability-aware content indexing technologies. We show how this approach can significantly enhance the ability to dynamically self-reorganize the underlying topology and deploy context sensitive functionality.
By: Yu Chen Zhou; Julian A Cerruti; Lin Ma; Lei Ma
Published in: RJ10374 in 2005
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