Service discovery supporting open scalability using FIPA-compliant agent platform for ubiquitous networks

Abstract

Service discovery protocol is the main element that determines the efficiency in middleware platform of ubiquitous networks. Recently, a large number of middlewares supporting scalability which focus on the distributed computing and data sharing among tremendous peers has been proposed. However, due to the distributed nature of ad-hoc networks, peers may not be able to find other peers and corresponding resources persistently. Furthermore, current service discovery engines do not provide open scalability that can make them to interoperate with each other. In this paper, we propose a simple mechanism, which provides cross-platform interoperability through directory federation combined with DHT mechanism to support open scalability and lightweight service discovery in ad-hoc network based on FIPA compatibility agent framework. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.