Service and device discovery of nodes in a wireless sensor network

Abstract

Emerging wireless communication standards and more capable sensors and actuators have pushed further development of wireless sensor networks. Deploying a large number of sensor nodes requires a high-level framework enabling the devices to present themselves and the resources they hold. The device and the resources can be described as services, and in this paper, we review a number of well-known service discovery protocols. Bonjour stands out with its auto-configuration, distributed architecture, and sharing of resources. We also present a lightweight implementation in order to demonstrate that an emerging standards-based device and service discovery protocol can actually be deployed on small wireless sensor nodes.

Survey on service discovery for Wireless Sensor Networks

“…Jini [5] provides SD in the form of object oriented distributed computing technology based on Java. Bonjour [6] runs over the IP protocol and also has the capability of automatically assigning IP addresses to networked devices, even without the help of a DHCP server. Bonjour's core is a service discovery protocol entirely based on the Multicast DNS Service Discovery -MDNS-SD.…”