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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2014
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Soo-Hyung Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Hyung-Kook Jun, Seoul, KR;
Kyung-II Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Kyeong-Tae Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Je-Man Park, Seoul, KR;
Yong-Yeon Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Won-Tae Kim, Asan-si, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for discovering a communication entity. The apparatus for discovering a communication entity includes a list generation unit for generating a list of connection target Data Readers (DRs), a counter generation unit for generating a counter including information about a number of the connection target DRs, and a discovery message communication unit for establishing communication connections to the connection target DRs based on the list and the counter. The discovery message communication unit includes a transmission unit for transmitting a DR discovery message including data topic information or possible service quality information to each of the connection target DRs, and a reception unit for receiving a Data Writer (DW) discovery message including data topic information or possible service quality information from each of the connection target DRs.