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IoT and Edge Computing for Architects

You're reading from   IoT and Edge Computing for Architects Implementing edge and IoT systems from sensors to clouds with communication systems, analytics, and security

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839214806
Length 632 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Perry Lea Perry Lea
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. IoT and Edge Computing Definition and Use Cases 2. IoT Architecture and Core IoT Modules FREE CHAPTER 3. Sensors, Endpoints, and Power Systems 4. Communications and Information Theory 5. Non-IP Based WPAN 6. IP-Based WPAN and WLAN 7. Long-Range Communication Systems and Protocols (WAN) 8. Edge Computing 9. Edge Routing and Networking 10. Edge to Cloud Protocols 11. Cloud and Fog Topologies 12. Data Analytics and Machine Learning in the Cloud and Edge 13. IoT and Edge Security 14. Consortiums and Communities 15. Other Books You May Enjoy
16. Index

Constrained Application Protocol

The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is the product of the IETF (RFC7228). The IETF Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) working group created the first draft of the protocol in June 2014 but had worked for several years on its creation. It is specifically intended as a communication protocol for constrained devices. The core protocol is now based on RFC7252. The protocol is unique as it was first tailored for M2M communication between edge nodes. It also supports mapping to HTTP through the use of proxies. This HTTP mapping is the on-board facility to get data across the Internet.

CoAP is excellent at providing a similar and easy structure of resource addressing familiar to anyone with experience using the web but with reduced resources and bandwidth demands.

A study performed by Colitti et al., demonstrated the efficiency of CoAP over standard HTTP (Colitti, Walter & Steenhaut, Kris & De, Niccolò. 2017. Integrating...

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