BlueWeb

As pervasive computing devices start to dominate the world of personal information devices and the services offered and accessed by such devices explode in a see of digital information, the device and service discovery technologies become an area of paramount importance in networking and mobile computing. A prerequisite to this paradigm where information appliances, smart spaces, and personal computing and communication devices dominate the set of networked devices on the Internet is solving the problem of defining, exporting, accessing services and associated devices in a ubiquitous way. On key difficulty in this area is that today we have a number of different device and service discovery technologies that are designed for specific networking protocols, specific link and connectivity technologies or even operating environments. As a result the service provisioning or access might be limited to their intended scope.

The BlueWeb project aims at unifying different and diverse device and service discovery technologies such as SLP, Bluetooth's SDP, Jini, etc. under a common API in order to make different device and service discovery technologies universally available. The objective of this project is to develop middleware, API and networking infrastructure technologies in order to be able to discover devices and services independently from the underlying protocols. Issues such as UI portability, service discovery abstraction and mapping between dissimilar protocols are being studied and explored.