Mobile Web Service Discovery in Peer to Peer Networks

TL;DR

This paper proposes a peer-to-peer based method for discovering mobile web services using JXTA modules, addressing the limitations of centralized registries in dynamic mobile environments.

Contribution

It introduces a P2P discovery approach for mobile web services by utilizing JXTA modules, offering an alternative to traditional centralized registries.

Findings

Effective discovery of mobile web services in P2P networks.

Addresses scalability issues of centralized registries.

Provides a method for identifying mobile hosts in P2P environments.

Abstract

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.