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Multi-Protocol Transport Layer QoS: An Emulation Based Validation for the Internet of Things

Authors:
James Wilcox
Dritan Kaleshi
Mahesh Sooriyabandara

Keywords: Quality of Service, Internet of Things, MQTT, Adaptive Transport Layer, Network Emulation, Middleware, Smart Grid

Abstract:
Application specific interaction models will be required to support efficient communications between distributed applications with disparate network requirements within the Internet of Things. This paper shows that intelligently selected transport protocols are able to provide increased efficiency of network resource usage under specific network conditions. Real-time adaptive selection of transport protocols makes it possible to achieve a distributed embedded system with heterogeneous actors that can react to both application-specified Quality of Service (QoS) requirements and varying network conditions. vNET, a custom, virtualisation based, distributed network emulation test bed will be presented and validated using an MQTT performance analysis before using it to validate the premise of multi-protocol transport layer QoS.

Pages: 547 to 559

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2014. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 30, 2014

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2679