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![Reliability and QoS 34 On CoAP protocol the CON and NON messages acts as QoS levels, where the CON message represents the higher QoS level. A request sent using NON type has no acknowledge message sent back by the receiver, which characterizes a low QoS level. The higher is the QoS level, the greater is the exchange of packets. CoAP client CoAP server CON [0xcda1] ACK [0xcda1] High QoS GET /temperature 2.05 Content CoAP client CoAP server High QoS (Token 0x71) (Token 0x71) “21.5” CON [0xcda2] ACK [0xcda2] GET /temperature 4.04 Not found (Token 0x72) (Token 0x72) “Not found” CoAP client CoAP server NON [0xcda3] GET /temperature 2.05 Content (Token 0x73) (Token 0x73) “20.2” Low QoS](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/sbrtpresentationfinal-150904125021-lva1-app6892/75/M2M-Protocols-for-Constrained-Environments-in-the-Context-of-IoT-A-Comparison-of-Approaches-34-2048.jpg)
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M2M Protocols for Constrained Environments in the Context of IoT: A Comparison of Approaches
The document compares MQTT and CoAP protocols for IoT in constrained environments, detailing their characteristics, implementation, and communication patterns. It highlights MQTT's strength in message delivery and lightweight implementation, while CoAP excels at resource accessibility through a RESTful approach. Both protocols have varied open-source implementations and address security concerns, but scalability and protocol choice depend on specific application needs.
M2M Protocols for Constrained Environments in the Context of IoT: A Comparison of Approaches
- 1. XXXIII SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRODE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES – SBrT2015 Edielson P. Frigieri, Daniel Mazzer e Luís F. C. G. Parreira M2M Protocols for Constrained Environments in the Context of IoT: A Comparison of Approaches 1
- 2. Outline 1 2 34 2 Introduction to the protocols: MQTT e CoAP Constrained environment definition Protocols comparison Conclusion
- 3. Outline 1 Introduction to the protocols: MQTTe CoAP 2 Constrained environment definition 3 Protocols comparison 4 Conclusion 3
- 4. IoT Trends 4 This technologyshift is expected to be greater than the one caused by the advent of mobile phones...
- 5. IoT Trends 5 ... butIoT scenarios present very constrained environments with millions or even billions of devices...
- 6. IoT Trends 6 … whichare motivating the design of new protocols, focused on constrained environments which demand only a few transfers of bytes per day and should run on battery powered devices for years.
- 7. Introduction: MQTT Designed in1999 by IBM and Eurotech Easy to implement Simple Lightweight 7
- 8. Introduction: MQTT Based onpublish/subscribe message pattern Broker Topic 1 Topic 2 Publisher Subscriber Subscriber Publisher Subscriber Publisher 8
- 9. Introduction: MQTT Whose mainfeatures... Transports any kind of data (Payload agnostic) Full decoupling in time, space and synchronization between publishers and subscribers 9
- 10. Introduction: MQTT ... Aswell Little transport overhead (2 bytes fixed header) Uses TCP/IP as the base for communication 10
- 11. Introduction: MQTT A newstandard version with focus on sensor networks, developed for running in different networks than TCP/IP 11
- 12. Introduction: CoAP Designed byConstrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) Working Group of Internet Engineering Task (IETF) CoAP Adapted from HTTP Minimal subset of REST Focus on devices with constrained power and processing capabilities 12
- 13. Introduction: CoAP Based onrequest/response model Client Server Server Client Server Client REQUEST REQUEST RESPONSE REQUEST REQUEST RESPONSE 13
- 14. Introduction: CoAP Whose mainfeatures... Connection is not established before message exchanging Resources can be accessed by URIs 14 Asynchronous information push (observe option)
- 15. Introduction: CoAP ... Aswell Little transport overhead (compact 4 bytes header) Uses UDP as the base for communication Small subset of methods (POST, GET, PUT, DELETE) 15
- 16. Outline 1 2 34 16 Introduction to the protocols: MQTT e CoAP Constrained environment definition Protocols comparison Conclusion
- 17. Constrained environments 17 What canbe considered a constrained environment?
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- 20. Constrained environments S S S S Gateway S Constrained devices Constrained network Internet xDSL, LAN, GPRS,3G, etc. Cloud Service capability 20 Constrained environment 15kbps ~ 1Mbps >50kbps
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- 22. Constrained environments Sensors arecomposed by 8-32 bits microcontrollers with 16-190 MHz clock rate, 8K-64M bytes and 64K-1M bytes flash memory. Sensors are powered by batteries and exchange data over unreliable networks. 22
- 23. Outline 1 2 34 23 Introduction to the protocols: MQTT e CoAP Constrained environment definition Protocols comparison Conclusion
- 24. Comparing the protocols 24 Implementation(size cost) Data transport (transmission cost) Communication patterns Reliability and QoS Scalability Security Open source implementations
- 25. Implementation 25 For both protocolsthere are C implementations that does not require dynamic memory allocation and occupies about 35KB of ROM Very good for a constrained scenario!! Both protocols have so many different implementations, and each one may have been tailored to attend different kind of applications. Lightweight!
- 26. Data transport 26 MQTT usesTCP/IP MQTT x CoAP CoAP uses UDP/IP Connection-oriented protocol Pros: • Ensures message delivery • Flow control Cons: • More protocol data exchanged • Processing cost • Hard to implement on some network topologies Connection-less protocol Pros: • Lightweight • Easy to implement Cons: • Message delivery not ensured • No message sequencing
- 27. Data transport 27 MQTT xCoAP Both protocols carry binary payload (data). For mesh battery operated devices, TCP connections demand that all nodes that are a path between two devices must store the connection session, usually this is more complex to implement and more energy is consumed. Using UDP connections, a node device just send an upward message to its best parent or neighbor.
- 28. Data transport 28 MQTT-SN To addressthe high resources needed by the TCP and also to allow MQTT to operate over non IP networks, the SN version of the protocol was released. The MQTT-SN version may be implemented even over serial (uart/spi/…) interfaces, and also over wireless protocols. As the SN implementation is very hardware and solution specific, there is no guarantee compatibility between implementations and brokers.
- 29. Communication patterns 29 Telemetry: Information flowsfrom device to other systems Device status report, sensor information Inquiries: Requests from devices Information request, asking to initiate activities Commands: System to device/devices Execute specific activities, get device response Notification: System to a device/devices Set configuration, FW upgrade, information
- 30. Communication patterns: MQTT 30 Telemetry Inquiries Commands Notification Verysuitable Device send messages to broker Device does not need to know every destination address Not very suitable, but possible Developers must implement request/response by hand Request/Response may be implemented on different topics Request/Response context must be implemented by hand Suitable, but tricky Easy to implement on device Server must control message response by hand Command response may be implemented on different topic Very suitable Broker may retain notifications for devices Server send and forget, broker will deliver the message Devices receives notifications when connected to the broker
- 31. Communication patterns: CoAP 31 Telemetry Inquiries Commands Notification Possible,but tricky Device send messages directly to destination Sender must know address of all possible receivers Receivers must accept external connections (NAT, 3G problem) Suitable CoAP is natively a request/response protocol Request/Response context is maintained by the protocol Suitable, but tricky Device must be able to accept external connections Command response context is maintained by the protocol Not very suitable When device is not always on, server must actively retransmit Device must be able to accept external connections
- 32. Reliability and QoS 32 Bothprotocols provides means to define some level of QoS (Quality of Service). Reliability is directly defined by the selected QoS and network environment. The designer must take in account the data exchange cost, network reliability, network latency, message importance and many other factors to choose a proper QoS level. If messages loss is not such a problem, a lower QoS level can be used resulting in lower bandwidth and lower end-to-end delay, which configure wired or wireless constrained networks.
- 33. Reliability and QoS 33 MQTTV3.1 supports 3 levels of Quality of Service (QoS) that represents the message delivery confidence. As the QoS level increases, there are more acknowledgement messages and better reliability on message delivery. Publisher Broker PUBLISH (QoS=0) Publisher Broker PUBLISH (QoS=1) Erase Store PUBACK Publisher Broker PUBLISH (QoS=2) PUBCOMP PUBREL PUBREC QoS=0 QoS=1 QoS=2 Erase Erase Store
- 34. Reliability and QoS 34 OnCoAP protocol the CON and NON messages acts as QoS levels, where the CON message represents the higher QoS level. A request sent using NON type has no acknowledge message sent back by the receiver, which characterizes a low QoS level. The higher is the QoS level, the greater is the exchange of packets. CoAP client CoAP server CON [0xcda1] ACK [0xcda1] High QoS GET /temperature 2.05 Content CoAP client CoAP server High QoS (Token 0x71) (Token 0x71) “21.5” CON [0xcda2] ACK [0xcda2] GET /temperature 4.04 Not found (Token 0x72) (Token 0x72) “Not found” CoAP client CoAP server NON [0xcda3] GET /temperature 2.05 Content (Token 0x73) (Token 0x73) “20.2” Low QoS
- 35. Security 35 MQTT: - Provides plain-textusername and password connection security. - May use TLS (Security Socket Layer), if implemented - May use encrypted payload, if implemented CoAP: - May use DTLS protocol (Datagram Transport Layer Security), if implemented.
- 36. Open source implementations 36 Bothprotocols have open source implementations written in C, C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, Go, Objective-C and many others. Important: The implementations vary in coverage of protocols specifications and some of them have some kind of limitation. Besides this may looks like a problem, in some applications running over very constrained resources, an application specific implementation is needed. http://coap.technology/http://mqtt.org/
- 37. Outline 1 2 34 37 Introduction to the protocols: MQTT e CoAP Constrained environment definition Protocols comparison Conclusion
- 38. Conclusions The use ofTCP as transport protocol limits its usage in more constrained environments. The message flow control can be configured according to the necessity using the available QoS options, which in turn increases data rate and delay. Security is one of the main problems for all approaches and must be reviewed for future versions. All proposed protocols can achieve scalability, where the protocols based on publish/subscribed model have simpler implementation. 38
- 39. Conclusions Many open sourceimplementations for both protocols can be found covering most application needs. MQTT presented better accordance to the presented communication patterns besides that has a lightweight and simple implementation. CoAP can be applied in the context of each thing being a resource that can be accessed through an URL. This feature allows CoAP devices easily adapt to the current web services available. 39
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