Service Discovery in Wireless Sensor Networks

This document provides a preliminary analysis of the mechanisms for service and resource discovery in the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) domain. These Service Discovery (SD) protocols form the cornerstone of the reconfiguration capability of the architecture and enable its effective management. We detail two proposals for incorporating this functionality in the Energy-efficient Sensor Network (EYES) framework. The EYES project (IST-2001-34734) is a three years European research project on self-organizing and collaborative energy-efficient sensor networks. It will address the convergence of distributed information processing, wireless communications, and mobile computing. The goal of the project is to develop the architecture and the technology which enables the creation of a new generation of sensors that can effectively network together so as to provide a flexible platform for the support of a large variety of mobile sensor network applications. The document was submitted to the European Comission as EYES Deliverable 3.4: Service Discovery.