Towards Distributed Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments

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2004-07-15

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Dipanjan Chakraborty, Anupam Joshi, and Yelena Yesha, Towards Distributed Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2004 , https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1563996

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service discovery architecture
pervasive computing
semantic description
peer to peer
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Abstract

The paper proposes a novel distributed service discovery protocol for pervasive environments. The protocol is based on the concepts of peer-to-peer caching of service advertisements and group-based intelligent forwarding of service requests. It does not require a service to be registered with a registry or lookup server. Services are described using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). We exploit the semantic class/subClass hierarchy of OWL to describe service groups and use this semantic information to selectively forward service requests. OWL-based service description also enables increased exibility in service matching. We present simulation results that show that our protocol achieves increased ef ciency in discovering services (compared to traditional broadcast-based mechanisms) by ef ciently utilizing bandwidth via controlled forwarding of service requests.