A MAC-Based Service Bundle Authentication Mechanism in the OSGi Service Platform

In this paper, we propose a service bundle authentication mechanism considering characteristics for the home gateway environment. We designed the key exchange mechanism for exchanging a key, which transports a service bundle safely in bootstrapping step that recognizes and initializes various equipments. And we propose the service bundle authentication mechanism based on MAC that use a shared secret created in the bootstrapping step. A MAC-based service bundle authentication mechanism we propose is more efficient than PKI-based service bundle authentication mechanism or RSH protocol in the OSGi service platform, which has restricted resources such as storage space and operations