Consuming Webservices and Caching their Responses for Mobile Devices in MANET

In ad hoc networks, most researches focus on routing, and not much work has been done on data access. The basic function of Web services is standardizing of how services expose their data and interface, method of discovery of reliable interaction and applicative environment with them. Mobile computing devices can invoke web service methods to gain access to desired data like location information, currency exchange rates etc. This paper focuses on the challenges of mobile devices consuming Web Services and caching their responses in MANET environment and introduces a caching framework to overcome problems arising from temporarily loss of connectivity and fluctuations in bandwidth.