Mobile Service Discovery Protocol (MSDP) for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a peer-to-peer service discovery protocol specially designed for mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) environment. The proposed mobile service discovery protocol (MSDP) uses a dynamic clustering algorithm to group nodes in a MANET, and utilizes distributed hash tables (DHTs) to efficiently cache service information in a peer-to-peer manner. Simulation results under different scenarios show that MSDP has steady performance and is able to reduce message overhead efficiently