對於智慧家庭系統所提出的彈性程式化技術已經存在許多年，最常見的為行動代理人技術。這類的架構通常是採用腳本式語言使行動代理人得以在各平台間移動，以此來達到動態的改變家庭裝置上的應用程式。然而，這類的系統架構通常不適用於記憶體受限的平台。我們基於家庭環境的特質，提出了EcoDeleggate這套較輕量化的網路架構，並透過派遣代理程式到資源受限的平台上來程式化智慧家庭中的系統。而為了降低傳輸代理程式的延遲時間，我們實作了增量連結的方法來遠端燒錄各個裝置。在本論文的實驗中，我們設計了三個測試案例來驗證系統的可行性與效能。實驗結果顯示EcoDelegate只需要3838位元組，而透過實作增量連結的方法，傳輸時間最高可以優化88.94%。
EcoDelegate的架構使得智慧家庭系統不只可以具有彈性化與可程式化的特性，同時此架構對於記憶體的要求也相當的低，因此可以運作在許多低成本的裝置上。而本架構也使得裝置間能夠自主的協同合作，因此消除了在傳統架構上中央閘道器可能會導致的故障問題。

The flexible programming technology for smart home has been proposed for years, such as
mobile-agent based architecture. Such an architecture usually employs script language for agent
migration, and thus the application on home devices can be dynamically changed. However, it does
not suit for memory-limited platforms. Based on the features of home environment, we proposes the
EcoDelegate, which is a more lightweight network architecture, to reprogram the smart-home system with autonomous delegates on resource-constrained platforms. To reduce the transmission latency of delegates, we implement the incremental linking approach for remote-reprogramming. In the experiment, we design three cases to evaluate the feasibility and the performance of our work. The result shows EcoDelegate consumes only 3838 bytes, and the transmission time of the cases can be enhanced 88.94% through incremental linking.
With the support of EcoDelegate, smart-home systems can not only be flexible and programmable to meet the dynamically changed requirements, but still keep the compact utilization of the device memory. The feature of the Peer-to-Peer collaboration between devices also contributes the efficiency of device communication and the elimination of the control point of failure on the centralized gateway.

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