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A Simple M2M Overlay Entity Discovery Protocol

Authors:
Teemu Väisänen

Keywords: distributed systems, service discovery, privacy

Abstract:
Abstract—This paper deals with discovering M2M overlay entities in Machine-to-Machine (M2M) service networks. The eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is used as a basic building block for the M2M communication. XMPP does not offer mechanisms for discovering unknown entities from unknown contacts, and this paper’s goal is to provide a protocol enabling this. The presented protocol does this by using asynchronous remote procedure calls (RPCs), unicast messages and friend-to-friend type of communication. The paper proposes new XMPP subscription statuses to enable exchange of roster items in the M2M overlay entity discovery protocol without compromising privacy, and presents the protocol for discovering unknown M2M overlay entities from unknown M2M overlay entities.

Pages: 14 to 19

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: June 24, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4529

ISBN: 978-1-61208-202-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2012 to June 29, 2012