Service Composition for Mobile Environments
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2005-01-01
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Dipanjan Chakraborty, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, and Yelena Yesha, Service Composition for Mobile Environments, Mobile Networks and Applications August 2005, Volume 10, Issue 4, pp 435–451 , DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-005-1556-y
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This is a pre-print of an article published in Mobile Networks and Applications. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-005-1556-y
This is a pre-print of an article published in Mobile Networks and Applications. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-005-1556-y
Abstract
Service Composition, that is, the development of customized services by discovering, integrating and executing existing services has received a lot of attention in the last couple of years with respect to wired-infrastructure or Internet web services. With the advancement in the wireless technology and rapid deployment of mobile devices, we envision that in the near future wirelessly connected mobile devices in a given vicinity will also provide services that can be leveraged in the composition process. This is particularly true of what have been described as “pervasive computing” environments. However, wired-infrastructure based service composition architectures are not designed to consider the various factors like mobility, device heterogeneity, resource variability and reliability in a mobile environment. In this paper, we describe the issues related to service composition in mobile environments and evaluate criteria for judging protocols that enable such composition. We present a distributed architecture and associated protocols for service composition in mobile environments that take into consideration mobility, dynamic changing service topology and device resources. The composition protocols are based on distributed brokerage mechanisms and utilize a distributed service discovery process over ad-hoc network connectivity. We present simulation results of our protocols, and compare them with a centralized service composition protocol traditionally used for wired-infrastructure environments. The results show that our approach clearly outperforms the existing centralized approaches, and that our protocols are able to adapt and better utilize the changing service topology and resources in a mobile environment.