Service description and dissemination for service discovery in pervasive computing environments. (29th March 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Thompson, Michael S.; Midkiff, Scott F.
• Is Part Of: International journal of ad hoc and ubiquitous computing. Volume 12:Number 4(2013)
• Page Start: 193
• Page End: 204
• Publication Date: 2013-03-29
• Subjects: service discovery -- pervasive computing -- ubiquitous computing -- mobile ad hoc networks -- MANETs -- service description -- service dissemination -- mobile networks; Ubiquitous computing -- Periodicals; Embedded computer systems -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Wireless communication systems -- Periodicals; Computer architecture -- Periodicals; 004.2
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8225

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.