A Survey of Current Directions in Service Placement in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Service placement deals with the problem of selecting which node in a network is most suitable for hosting a service that responds to queries from other nodes. Optimally placing services reduces network traffic and improves connectivity between clients and servers. Service placement algorithms may thus be regarded as an interesting building block for research into service-oriented middleware. Recently, new approaches to address the service placement problem in the field of ad-hoc networking have been proposed. This paper surveys, classifies and evaluates ten representative approaches, thereby providing a summary of the state of the art in service placement.