Department of Computer Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620023, India.

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Abstract—Thousands of applications are available for Desktop, Smartphone and Tablet environments. The inter-application communication across these devices is very limited while using them on a home network to share data. This paper discusses about the possibility of inter-application communication across devices on a home network using UPnP. It provides a mechanism to discover and identify an application on a home network using an Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) for the inter-application communication. This paper also demonstrate the discovery and identification of an application on a home network using UPnP with a prototype implementation.

Index Terms—Application ID, UUID, UPnP, inter-application communication.

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Cite: Kalaiselvi Arunachalam, Gopinath Ganapathy, "Discovery and Identification of an Application for Inter-Application Communication on a Home Network Using UPnP," Journal of Computers vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 488-496, 2016.