Service Discovery Protocol

The services can be defined as applications that are available for other applications called customers can use the functions of a server, for communicating with those servers is necessary for customers to know which of the teams that provide services are available and what each service provides, this requires client configuration so that this can make communication with the respective server. This configuration requires knowing what services are being provided on the network and who offers them, but what happens if customers do not know who the servers and even worse would happen if customers do not know what services are being provided, in this case are systems that allow you to discover what services are available on a network. The service discovery protocols are designed precisely to carry out these activities, seeking to create networks that are configured automatically. SDP protocols such as used by the Bluetooth system, Sun Microsystem's Jini, Universal Plug and Play Microsoft are clear examples of these protocols, which cover in this article.