MQTT-S — A publish/subscribe protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) pose novel challenges compared with traditional networks. To answer such challenges a new communication paradigm, data-centric communication, is emerging. One form of data-centric communication is the publish/subscribe messaging system. Compared with other data-centric variants, publish/subscribe systems are common and wide-spread in distributed computing. Thus, extending publish/subscribe systems intoWSNs will simplify the integration of sensor applications with other distributed applications. This paper describes MQTT-S [1], an extension of the open publish/subscribe protocol message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) [2] to WSNs. MQTT-S is designed in such a way that it can be run on low-end and battery-operated sensor/actuator devices and operate over bandwidth-constraint WSNs such as ZigBee-based networks. Various protocol design points are discussed and compared. MQTT-S has been implemented and is currently being tested on the IBM wireless sensor networking testbed [3]. Implementation aspects, open challenges and future work are also presented.
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- Authors
- Hunkeler, U., Truong, H. L., & Stanford-Clark, A.
- Affiliations
- IBM (United States) (US)
- IBM (United Kingdom) (GB)
- ORCID
- Truong, Hong Linh
- Venue
- 2008 3rd International Conference on Communication Systems Software and Middleware and Workshops (COMSWARE '08)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2008-01
- Pages
- 791-798
- OpenAlex
- W2027281287
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- FWCI
- 4.12
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- COMmunication System softWAre and MiddlewaRE (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › IoT Networks and Protocols
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Wireless Sensor Networks and IoT
- Keywords
- publish/subscribe protocol, wireless sensor networks, data-centric communication, ZigBee, low-power sensor nodes, battery-powered devices, bandwidth-constrained networks, protocol design
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