A low-latency service composition approach in mobile ad hoc networks

In order to offer complex services to the users, separate services located at different devices in MANET should be composed in a mobile ad hoc network. A distributed approach to search for the Service Composition Path (SCP) with a low latency is proposed, which is based on two methods, Path Filtering and Path Combination. These two methods avoid unnecessary message transmissions, and greatly improve the searching efficiency. The experiment results show the superiorities of the approach to its counterpart.