An overlay network approach to find objects in the future internet

The discovery of network objects (content, services, devices, persons, etc.) is an important challenge to face when researching towards the Future Internet. In this paper we give an overview of the challenge regarding network object discovery for the Future Internet, proposing a new architecture that provides mechanisms to achieve network object discovery from partial object descriptions, building an overlay network to organize object descriptions and using strong statistical mechanisms to find them from partial descriptions. With a prototype implementation of the architecture we demonstrate experimentally its feasibility and general behavior in different scenarios.