Routing Layer Service Advertisement Approach for MANETs

Finding resources in mobile ad hoc network which is infrastructure less and all of nodes are free to move from a position to new position, is not easy and has a direct relation to the method of storing services information among the network. In this paper we propose a way for advertising and management of resources information in the network that reduce number of communication messages and all services are accessible. We also use a clustering routing protocol to avoid flooding. To reduce message communication we move service advertisement from application layer to routing layer. In this case service advertisement piggy backed hello message and these two processes takes place simultaneous. Our experiment shows that this manner does not have significant overhead.