Distributed Service Location and Session Management for Ad-hoc Networks

This paper presents distributed and authenticated service discovery and session management schemes. The SLP and SIP protocols have been enhancedfor use in ad-hoc networks. We have coupled the protocols with the AODV ad-hoc routing protocol to make the signaling as efficient as possible. The design has been implemented and tried out in a real ad-hoc network testbed. Our results show that the system is feasible in practice, and very efficient both in terms of bandwidth consumption and computational load.