Allia: alliance-based service discovery for ad-hoc environments
WMC '02 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Mobile commerce
Maté: a tiny virtual machine for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
STEAM: Event-Based Middleware for Wireless Ad Hoc Network
ICDCSW '02 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
PERCOM '03 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
MESH Mdl " A Middleware for Self-Organization in Ad Hoc Networks
ICDCSW '03 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
LIME: A Middleware for Physical and Logical Mobility
ICDCS '01 Proceedings of the The 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Service Rings - A Semantic Overlay for Service Discovery in Ad hoc Networks
DEXA '03 Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Expeerience: A Jxta Middleware for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
P2P '03 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
Service Discovery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Field Theoretic Approach
WOWMOM '05 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks
EMMA: Epidemic Messaging Middleware for Ad hoc networks
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Toward Distributed Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
What middleware for network centric operations?
Knowledge-Based Systems
Pervasive Software Environments for Supporting Disaster Responses
IEEE Internet Computing
A middleware for service-oriented communication in mobile disaster response environments
Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Middleware for pervasive and ad-hoc computing
A Survey of Service Discovery Protocols in Multihop Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Agent-based resource discovery architecture for environmental emergency management
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Context-aware middleware solutions for anytime and anywhere emergency assistance to elderly people
IEEE Communications Magazine
Review: Service-oriented middleware: A survey
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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Technology can play a significant role in the management and coordination activities of special operations such as emergency response, military combat missions, forest firefighting, etc. Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) can be used quite effectively to manage resource sharing in such operations due to their flexibility and ease of establishment. The concept of service discovery has some appealing characteristics and features that can be adopted and adapted for the nature and needs of these applications. In this study, we present the middleware architecture of a service discovery and allocation system that we propose for the applications of special operations. The main purpose of the proposed system is to locate, reserve and assign a certain service to the party that is in need of this service, with little or no human intervention. The concerned service could be medics, equipment, ambulances, etc. The network participants are divided into service providers, service requestors and anchor nodes. The anchor nodes are the ones which are used to manage resource discovery and allocation. The proposed middleware takes into consideration the classification of these network nodes on the basis of their function. Based on the classification of a certain node, only the middleware modules relevant to its function are activated. We describe the design of this middleware in detail. We also experiment with the proposed technique and present some results that show its capabilities from different performance perspectives.