Service Discovery -- A Survey and Comparison

TL;DR

This paper surveys major service discovery solutions, compares them based on eight criteria, and highlights their limitations and future research directions in networked systems.

Contribution

It provides a detailed comparison and analysis of existing service discovery protocols using a set of defined criteria, which was lacking in prior surveys.

Findings

Identified key limitations of current discovery protocols.

Highlighted gaps and future research opportunities.

Provided a comprehensive comparison framework.

Abstract

With the increasing number of services in the internet, companies intranets, and home networks: service discovery becomes an integral part of modern networked system. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of major solutions for service discovery. We cover techniques and features used in existing systems. Although a few survey articles have been published on this object, our contribution focuses on comparing and analyzing surveyed solutions according eight prime criteria, which we have defined before. This comparison will be helpful to determine limits of existing discovery protocols and identify future research opportunities in service discovery.