Semantic-Based Resource Discovery, Composition and Substitution in IEEE 802.11 Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

The authors present a general framework for resource discovery, composition and substitution in Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANET), exploiting knowledge representation techniques. Key points of the proposed approach are: reuse of discovery information at network layer in order to build a fully unified semantic-based discovery and routing framework; use of semantic annotation of resources in order to perform the orchestration of elementary resources for building personalized services adopting a concept covering procedure, and to allow the automatic substitution of no more suitable/available components.