Real-time applications in spontaneous mobile networks (often called mobile ad hoc networks) are a major technical challenge. On one hand, mobile devices and wireless connections between them are becoming ubiquitous, and real-time applications such as games or Voice-overIP would be very attractive to their users. On the other hand, providing real-time services in such an environment is quite difficult since the provisioning procedures must cope with the high level of device heterogeneity, degree of mobility, and take limited device resources into account. In this paper, we introduce SIRAMON, a generic, decentralized service provisioning framework for spontaneous mobile networks. SIRAMON integrates the required functions to deal with the whole life-cycle of services. SIRAMON offers sufficient capabilities to specify, deploy, instantiate and manage not only trivial but also complex services like real-time mobile group applications.
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