Group Communication in Constrained Environments using CoAP-based Entities

Date
2013-05-20
Authors
Ishaq, Isam
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Abstract
The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is a new Internet protocol that is currently being standardized. CoAP allows access to the drastically increasing number of smart objects and their sensing resources from virtually anywhere. It is a light-weight protocol designed to cope with the restrictions imposed by the limited resources (CPU, memory, power,…) of many smart objects. Depending on the application, information from individual objects might not be sufficient, reliable, or useful. An application may need to aggregate and/or compare data from a group of objects in order to obtain accurate results. Although multicast may be used to transmit the same request to several objects, multicast communication with smart objects has some disadvantages. Programming individual requests is another solution but lacks flexibility and opportunities for reusability. In this paper we propose a novel CoAP-based approach for communication with a group of resources across multiple smart objects. This approach organizes the group of resources that should be accessed into a new CoAP resource, called an entity, and nicely integrates several important aspects of entity management: creation, validation, usage and manipulation. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of this approach we present an implementation and experimental validation.
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Internet of Things , CoAP , sensors , wireless sensor networks , group communication , entities
Citation
Ishaq, Isam, Jeroen Hoebeke, Floris Van den Abeele, Ingrid Moerman, and Piet Demeester. "Group communication in constrained environments using CoAP-based entities." In Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2013 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 345-350. IEEE, 2013.