Scalable and interoperable service discovery for future internet

Abstract

We live in a highly networked world where users and their devices interact with other devices with the help of services. With the current trend of social networking and the engendering of user generated multimedia content through personal mobile devices, services are not just confined to enterprise servers. In fact, services travel along with users and/or devices that may act as both mobile service providers as well as service consumers. This trend paves the way for the next generation of Internet (Future Internet) where a very large number of such mobile devices will provide and consume ubiquitous services. The Future Internet (FI) is an opportunity to address service discovery combined with mobility enabling: (i) service providers to join networks and announce their services and (ii) service consumers to discover and invoke services irrespectively of their location. This paper focuses on service discovery for large scale network in the context of Future Internet, taking into account protocol interoperability and scalability.