Service Location and Multiparty Peering for Mobile Ad Hoc Communication

Abstract. Flexible personal communications may require dynamically discovering, using, and combining a number of services to support the activities of a mobile user. However, many service discovery and service control protocol frameworks are not designed with requirements for ad-hoc and group communication in a changing environment in mind. In this paper, we motivate the case for personalized group communications based upon a (static) office application scenario featuring simple remote device control and then enhance the scope towards service location and dynamic establishment of group communications for mobile users: ad-hoc multiparty peering. We particularly explore the issues relating to group communication setup and robustness in the presence of changing connectivity and present a framework for mobile multiparty ad-hoc cooperation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: IFIP
• Authors: Dirk Kutscher, Jörg Ott
• Keywords: Communications, Group Communication, IFIP 2004, Mobile Multiparty Ad-hoc, Mobile Users