Service discovery in Bluetooth scatternets

Suggested size

Master's Thesis/15ECTS project; workload: 20% theoretical/80% practical.

Objective

Demonstrate that service discovery can be integrated into Bluetooth scatternet middleware.

Goal

Design, implement and evaluate an extension of BEDNET that will provide service discovery in BEDNET.

Content

Bluetooth scatternets enable distantly located Bluetooth units to communicate via intermediate units. Bluetooth Enabled Device ad-hoc Network (BEDNET) is a piece of Java middleware providing basic connectivity for Java applications in a Bluetooth scatternet. It can run in J2ME on Bluetooth enabled mobile phones, supporting MIDlets, or in J2SE on Bluetooth-enabled laptops using the BlueCove libraries.

In this project, BEDNET should be extended with a discovery service and a number of demonstration services, e.g.

• Printing service
• Internet connectivity service
• SMS send & receive service
• Music streaming service
• Chat service
• Video surveillance service
• Notification service
• GPS-based location service

Possible supervisors

Literature

• Skytte, Guðnason & Nielsen: BEDNET - Bluetooth Enabled Device ad-hoc NETwork. Master's Thesis, IT University of Copenhagen, 2008.
• Nielsen, Glenstrup, Skytte & Guðnason: Real-world Bluetooth MANET Java Middleware. Student project, 8pp. IT University of Copenhagen 2009.
• Coulouris, Dollimore, Kindberg: Distributed Systems. Pearson 2005:
  • IP Multicast, Section 4.5.1.
  • Discovery Services, Section 16.2.1.
• Abdolbast Greede & Donal O'Mahony: A Service Driven Routing Protocol For Bluetooth Scatternets. 5th European Personal Mobile Communications Conference, pp. 307-311. 2003.
• Zhenguo Gao, Yongtian Yang, Jing Zhao, Jianwen Cui & Xiang Li: Service Discovery Protocols for MANETs: A Survey. Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks. LNCS 4325. Springer 2006.
• Françoise Sailhan & Valérie Issarny: Scalable Service Discovery for MANET. IEEE Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2005). IEEE 2005.
• Zhenguo Gao, Sheng Liu, Mei Yang, Jinhua Zhao & Jiguang Song: A Generic Minimum Dominating Forward Node Set Based Service Discovery Protocol for MANETs. High Performance Computing and Communications. LNCS 4782. Springer 2007.
• Carlos A. Flores-Cortés, Gordon S. Blair & Paul Grace: A multi-protocol framework for ad-hoc service discovery. Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC 2006). ACM 2006.
• Nils Agne Nordbotten, Tor Skeie and Niels D. Aakvaag: Methods for service discovery in Bluetooth scatternets. Computer Communications 27(11), pp. 1087-1096. Elsevier 2004.
• Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector (DSDV) Routing. Wikipedia.org.
• Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing. Wikipedia.org.
• Skytte, Guðnason & Nielsen: BEDNET middleware.