A Novel Clustering Framework for Web Service in MANET

The mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) is autonomous, infrastructureless network. Unlike the common Web service used in wired applications, the web service applications based on MANET have so many differences in data transmission, service registration and service discovery. All components of web service of MANET need to consider the features of mobile devices and mobile environment. Considering the characters and requirements, this paper presents a new framework for Web service in MANET, which supports SOAP-over-UDP and adopts cluster architecture. And to make the service working smoothly in such framework, this paper prompts special service registration and discovery strategies. The experiment results demonstrate that the new framework with special service working strategies has great superiority both in response-time and efficiency in MANET environment.