Service Recommendation using SLP

As more services become available on networks, and as ad hoc network grows in popularity, the problem of service location will grow. Service location is the detection of a service through automated means, and the subsequent configuration of the service user to use that service. A number of service discovery protocols currently exist, but there is no known framework for the evaluation and comparison of these protocols based solely on their service discovery characteristics. This paper presents the Service Discovery Model, a generic meta-model describing all common tasks of service discovery. We then use the SDM illustrate the Service Location Protocol and extend it to support comparisons between services.