International journal of advanced smart convergence

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Performance Comparison of HTTP, HTTPS, and MQTT for IoT Applications

  • Sukjun, Hong (Department of Smart System, Kwangwoon University) ;
  • Jinkyu, Kang (TSP-XR) ;
  • Soonchul, Kwon (Graduate School of Smart Convergence, Kwangwoon University)
  • Received : 2022.12.06
  • Accepted : 2022.12.12
  • Published : 2023.03.31
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Abstract

Recently, IoT technology has been widely used in many industries. Also research on integrating IoT technology with IoT sensors is actively underway. One of the important challenges in IoT is to support low-latency communication. With the development of communication networks and protocols, a variety of protocols are being used, and their performance is improving. In this paper, we compare the performance and analyze the characteristics of some of the major communication protocols in IoT application, namely MQTT, HTTP, and HTTPS. IoT sensors acquired data by connecting an Arduino equipped with ESP8266 and a temperature and humidity sensor (DHT11). The server measured the performance by building servers for each protocol using AWS EC2. We analyzed the packets transmitted between the Arduino and the server during the data transmission. We measured the amount of data and transfer time. The measurement results showed that MQTT had the lowest data transmission time and data amount among the three protocols.

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Acknowledgement

This work was partly supported by Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation(IITP) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT) (No.RS-2022-00156041, Development of object/drawing technology and web application for augmented reality interior service). And the present research has been conducted by the excellent researcher support project of Kwangwoon University in 2022

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