Mapping Salutation Architecture APIs to Bluetooth Service Discovery Layer

<p><font face="Verdana">Mapping Salutation Architecture APIs to Bluetooth Service Discovery Layer<br/></font></p><font face="Verdana">The Bluetooth protocol stack contains a service discovery protocol (SDP) [1] that<br/>enables the retrieval of information that can be used to configure the stack to<br/>support several end-user applications. SDP can further be used to locate<br/>services that are available on devices in the vicinity of the user. Having located<br/>available services, a user may then select to use any of them.<br/>SDP provides direct support for the following set of service inquires:<br/>· search for services by service class;<br/>· search for services by service attributes; and<br/>· service browsing.<br/>A service discovery profile is provided [2] that describes a generic syntax and<br/>semantics to be used by a service discovery application to locate services in<br/>other processes using Bluetooth SDP. The primitives are described in a generic<br/>way as these primitives may be operating environment dependent.<br/>The Salutation Architecture [3] provides a standard method for applications,<br/>services and devices to describe and to advertise their capabilities to other<br/>applications, services and devices and to find out their capabilities. The<br/>architecture also enables applications, services and devices to search other<br/>applications, services or devices for a particular capability, and to request and<br/>establish interoperable sessions with them to utilise their capabilities.<br/>This paper maps Bluetooth service discovery to the Salutation Architecture.<br/>Specifically this paper (1) maps the Bluetooth service discovery profile to the<br/>Salutation APIs and (2) maps the Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol to the<br/>Salutation Manager.</font>
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