A service discovery framework for a peer-to-peer network

Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 55).As mobile networks become ubiquitous, and devices like PDAs and cell phones become commonplace, today's traditional computing paradigms are no longer relevant. Instead, we now live in a world where computing power is pervasive, and the means to access that power is as simple as the click of a button or a voice command. However, in order to make use of that power users need a means to locate it. Specifically, users need a means to easily query for services within a network without having to necessarily know where those services are located or even how to query for those services beforehand. The purpose of this thesis is to present a service discovery framework for an ad-hoc network of peers that allows users to discover in realtime how to query for a particular service and particular instances of a service using the query mechanisms presented to them.by Siddhartha Goyal.M.Eng