Mobile Web Service Discovery in Peer to Peer Networks
Satish Narayana Srirama, Matthias Jarke, Wolfgang Prinz
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5th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems (UMICS 2007) @ 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'07), June 11-12, 2007
The advanced features of today's smart phones and hand held devices, like the increased memory and processing capabilities, allowed them to act even as information providers. Thus a smart phone hosting web services is not a fancy anymore. But the relevant discovery of these services provided by the smart phones has became quite complex, because of the volume of services possible with each Mobile Host providing some services. Centralized registries have severe drawbacks in such a scenario and alternate means of service discovery are to be addressed. P2P domain with it resource sharing capabilities comes quite handy and here in this paper we provide an alternate approach to UDDI registry for discovering mobile web services. The services are published into the P2P network as JXTA modules and the discovery issues of these module advertisements are addressed. The approach also provides alternate means of identifying the Mobile Host.
Mobile peer-to-peer networks are quite prevalent and popular now days due to advent of business scenarios where all the services are going mobile like whether it's to find good restaurants, healthy diet books making friends, job-hunting, real state info or cab-sharing etc. As the mobile users are increasing day by day, peer-to-peer networks getting bigger and complex. In contrast to client server system in peer-to-peer network resource sharing is done on the basis of mutual consent and agreed policies with no central authority and controlling entity. Incentive schemes for P2P networks are devi…
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