Dynamically updatable UPnP service for device role management

A Universal Server Discovery Method for Generic Server Indexing

“…Recently the intensified interest in IoT are driving the emergence of devices discovery that account for applications diversity, however they are designed to address a specific set of devices; which is becoming apparent with heterogeneous IoT devices communication architecture that discourage universality [13,15]. Given the lack of initiative to standardize IoT devices (potential server) communication, our options are reduced to aggregating multiple open source and proprietary protocols for composite automated server's discovery to improve discovery completeness.…”

“…In open world context, only devices running the same discovery protocol becomes visible to their peers; such that a Samsung smart TV is only made visible other UPnP enabled devices but are hidden from devices without UPnP support, despite sitting in the same network. The result is collections of protocol-classified domains [14,15], which is not healthy for comprehensive services discovery unless we are able to provide exhaustive support to every discovery protocols that are currently present.…”

“…Email, DNS, database, DHCP are examples of servers that do not use any of the aforementioned protocols, and this consolidates that servers attributes are so diverse that the most complete collection of discovery protocols is not sufficient to comprehensively index servers in a dynamic and evolving network environments [10]. It becomes obvious that microscopic server identification is fast becoming a luxury due to the rapid rate of new services introduction in age of IOT [14], and servers' discovery need to account for server's diversity that is not restricted by manual servers' definition. To achieve robust and comprehensive server discovery, we proposes to identify servers at high granularity level based on attributes matching that are common to most servers.…”