Service discovery

Service discovery is the process of automatically detecting devices and services on a computer network. It aims to reduce the manual configuration effort required from users and administrators. A service discovery protocol (SDP) is a network protocol that helps accomplish service discovery.

This article is about a type of network protocols. For the multimedia session initiation protocol, see Session Description Protocol.

Service discovery requires a common language to allow software agents to make use of one another's services without the need for continuous user intervention.

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