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Flexible unicast-based group communication for CoAP-enabled devices

Isam Ishaq (UGent) , Jeroen Hoebeke (UGent) , Floris Van den Abeele (UGent) , Jen Rossey (UGent) , Ingrid Moerman (UGent) and Piet Demeester (UGent)
(2014) SENSORS. 14(6). p.9833-9877
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Smart embedded objects will become an important part of what is called the Internet of Things. Applications often require concurrent interactions with several of these objects and their resources. Existing solutions have several limitations in terms of reliability, flexibility and manageability of such groups of objects. To overcome these limitations we propose an intermediately level of intelligence to easily manipulate a group of resources across multiple smart objects, building upon the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). We describe the design of our solution to create and manipulate a group of CoAP resources using a single client request. Furthermore we introduce the concept of profiles for the created groups. The use of profiles allows the client to specify in more detail how the group should behave. We have implemented our solution and demonstrate that it covers the complete group life-cycle, i.e., creation, validation, flexible usage and deletion. Finally, we quantitatively analyze the performance of our solution and compare it against multicast-based CoAP group communication. The results show that our solution improves reliability and flexibility with a trade-off in increased communication overhead.
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CoAP, Internet of Things, sensors, wireless sensor networks, group communication, entities, WEB, IBCN

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Ishaq, Isam, et al. “Flexible Unicast-Based Group Communication for CoAP-Enabled Devices.” SENSORS, vol. 14, no. 6, 2014, pp. 9833–77, doi:10.3390/s140609833.
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Ishaq, I., Hoebeke, J., Van den Abeele, F., Rossey, J., Moerman, I., & Demeester, P. (2014). Flexible unicast-based group communication for CoAP-enabled devices. SENSORS, 14(6), 9833–9877. https://doi.org/10.3390/s140609833
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Ishaq, Isam, Jeroen Hoebeke, Floris Van den Abeele, Jen Rossey, Ingrid Moerman, and Piet Demeester. 2014. “Flexible Unicast-Based Group Communication for CoAP-Enabled Devices.” SENSORS 14 (6): 9833–77. https://doi.org/10.3390/s140609833.
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Ishaq, Isam, Jeroen Hoebeke, Floris Van den Abeele, Jen Rossey, Ingrid Moerman, and Piet Demeester. 2014. “Flexible Unicast-Based Group Communication for CoAP-Enabled Devices.” SENSORS 14 (6): 9833–9877. doi:10.3390/s140609833.
Vancouver
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Ishaq I, Hoebeke J, Van den Abeele F, Rossey J, Moerman I, Demeester P. Flexible unicast-based group communication for CoAP-enabled devices. SENSORS. 2014;14(6):9833–77.
IEEE
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I. Ishaq, J. Hoebeke, F. Van den Abeele, J. Rossey, I. Moerman, and P. Demeester, “Flexible unicast-based group communication for CoAP-enabled devices,” SENSORS, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 9833–9877, 2014.
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  title        = {{Flexible unicast-based group communication for CoAP-enabled devices}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.3390/s140609833}},
  volume       = {{14}},
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