Integration of Cluster Based Routing and Mobile Service Discovery Protocol for Manets: ANovel Approach
Manoj Kumar Shukla, R. Raja Kishore, Rohit Kumar · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2009
Service discovery technologies enable services to advertise their existence in a dynamic way, and can be discovered, configured and used by other devices with minimum manual efforts.In order to achieve efficient service discovery in large scale Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) we have proposed a scheme that integrates service discovery with cluster based routing by piggybacking service information into routing layer messages. Thus, service discovery does not generate additional messages and a node requesting a service, in addition to discovering that service; it is simultaneously informed of the route to the service provider. The proposed Service Discovery Protocol uses a dynamic clustering algorithm to group nodes in a MANET into clusters, and utilizes Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) called Service Table to efficiently cache service information in a peer-to-peer manner. This paper proposes a scheme that greatly enhances service discovery in terms of efficiency, minimizes the traffic and energy consumption.