Integrating IEEE 1394 as infotainment backbone into the automotive environment

IEEE 1394 is an upcoming multimedia bus standard well known to the consumer market. To fulfill the increasing demand of mobile communication and in-car infotainment services many European manufacturers plan to equip vehicles with high bandwidth multimedia bus systems. Todays first implementations of infotainment networks are based on proprietary systems with limited bandwidth. LOMI (Lehrstuhl Organisation und Management von Informationssystemen) concentrates on IEEE 1394 to use a standardized system in the automotive environment. First efforts have been done to define a protocol that scales with the number of nodes and services of the in-vehicle system under consideration. Besides it is able to handle a reconfiguration of the physical layer.