Seamless service composition (SeSCo) in pervasive environments

  • Authors:

  • Swaroop Kalasapur;Mohan Kumar;Behrooz Shirazi

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX;University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX;Washington State University, Pullman, WA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the first ACM international workshop on Multimedia service composition
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

It is a challenging task to develop applications and systems that cater to the needs of ever increasing multimedia applications. Additionally, in pervasive computing environments, multimedia data needs to be delivered to heterogeneous devices with varying capabilities over a variety of communication channels. The objective of this research is to dynamically compose services by effectively utilizing the collective capabilities of resources available to deliver multimedia. Existing schemes provide composite solutions to multimedia applications, work either on a centralized system or assume that the environment is ad-hoc in nature, resulting in additional overheads during composition. Further, some of the existing composition schemes are an extension to discovery, resulting in a discover + match + coordinate scheme. Such schemes would not be effective in dynamically changing environments, due to the uncertainties involved. In this paper, we present a novel composition scheme, called Seamless Service Composition (SeSCo), that operates on automatically configurable resource hierarchies for discovery and composition. SeSCo attempts to weave necessary services by utilizing available individual services seamlessly. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our scheme over existing broadcast based schemes.