Title: Service description and dissemination for service discovery in pervasive computing environments

Authors: Michael S. Thompson; Scott F. Midkiff

Addresses: Electrical Engineering Department, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA ' Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 302 Whittemore Hall (0111), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

Abstract: The ability to describe, locate, choose, and interact with services is an integral part of pervasive computing. Compared to previous computing environments, pervasive computing environments are more dynamic and transient while services and clients in these environments are diverse in type and function. In order to effectively facilitate communication and computation in these environments, protocols must be able to these characteristics. This work concentrates on our approach to two of the four components of service discovery, service description and dissemination. We introduce and compare the performance of our schemes to that of existing industrial and research approaches.

Keywords: service discovery; pervasive computing; ubiquitous computing; mobile ad hoc networks; MANETs; service description; service dissemination; mobile networks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2013.052862

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2013 Vol.12 No.4, pp.193 - 204

Received: 22 Dec 2010
Accepted: 21 Oct 2011
Published online: 28 Mar 2013 *

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