MDE-URDS – A Mobile Device Enabled Service Discovery System

Service Discovery is an important step during the creation of distributed systems made out of independently developed and deployed quality-aware components. Despite of many prevalent approaches, the task of service discovery that encompasses components running on resource constrained devices does not yet have a satisfactory solution. Here, we present a service discovery framework which is specially designed to include resource constrained devices and uses the Mobile IP and the MANET protocols. A preliminary prototype of this framework, along with associated experiments, is described in this paper.