Authors:
Eliseu Pereira
;
Rui Pinto
;
João Reis
and
Gil Gonçalves
Affiliation:
SYSTEC - Research Center for Systems and Technologies, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto and Portugal
Keyword(s):
M2M Communication, IoT, Resource Discovery, Resource Directory, Zero Configuration, MQTT.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Data Communication Networking
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Internet of Things
;
Sensor Networks
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Telecommunications
Abstract:
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the key enablers for digital businesses and economic growth. By interconnecting objects and people through diverse heterogeneous networks, using Machine to Machine (M2M) communication, IoT enables the continuous monitoring of devices its surrounding environment, proving to have a huge potential in terms of new business opportunities. One of the biggest challenges nowadays in M2M communication, is the way devices are capable to look up for other devices and their services in local networks and internet. This paper proposes a distributed resource discovery architecture (MQTT-RD) based on the MQTT protocol. The proposed architecture enables decentralized discovery and management of devices in multiple networks, by introducing plug and play capabilities to devices, contributing for a mechanism for zero-configuration networking in IoT environments. This architecture was tested in an experimental environment, composed of multiple devices, in order to
test resource discovery capabilities using an MQTT based protocol. The evaluated metrics were the overall message drop in the network, the delays in the delivery of messages and the processing time of each message.
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