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Adaptive Jitter Control for UPnP M-Search Kevin Mills and Christopher Dabrowski Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899 Abstract – Selected service-discovery systems allow clients to insights we provide should help designers of service- issue multicast queries to locate network devices and services. discovery systems to create architectures that can scale across Qualifying devices and services respond directly to clients; thus, a variety of network sizes, while achieving effective and in a large network, potential exists for responses to implode on a efficient performance. client, overrunning available resources. To limit implosion, one service-discovery system, UPnP, permits clients to include a The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. jitter bound in multicast (M-Search) queries. Qualifying devices Section II describes the UPnP M-Search mechanism, defines use the jitter bound to randomize timing of their responses. an experiment and related metrics to characterize M-Search Initially, clients