Abstract-This paper surveys research in service advertising, discovery and selection for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and related issues. We include a categorization of service discovery architectures for MANETs and their modes of operation, presenting their merits and drawbacks. We pay particular attention to cross-layer service discovery a special class of efficient service discovery approaches for MANETs. We also present security issues and discuss service description options, service selection mechanisms and service state maintenance techniques. We conclude with a summary, an outlook and directions for future research in this area.
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Service Discovery for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Survey of Issues and Techniques
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Computer Science