• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.1-6
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• 2014

The IoT (Internet of Things) is considered as a core technology to realize interconnected world. At this, companies composing ICT industry and standard organizations make efforts to accelerate it. IETF CoRE(Constrained RESTful Environment) working group standardized CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol) for the constrained device. CoAP has RESTful architecture and CoAP option is provided to use forward-proxy. The forward-proxy is used to translate protocol and perform requests on behalf of the client. However, communication between Internet based client and LLN(Low-power and Lossy Network) based CoAP server architecture has limitations to deploy real IoT service. In this architecture, problems like response delay, URI assignment and DoS attack can be occurred. To solve these problems, we propose the reverse-proxy based system. We consider both of static IoT and mobility IoT environments. Finally, our proposed system is expected to provide efficient IoT service.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.191-200
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• 2022

Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is a standardized protocol by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for the Internet of things (IoT). IoT devices have limited computation power, memory, and connectivity capabilities. One of the significant problems in IoT networks is congestion control. The CoAP standard has an exponential backoff congestion control mechanism, which may not be adequate for all IoT applications. Each IoT application would have different characteristics, requiring a novel algorithm to handle congestion in the IoT network. Unnecessary retransmissions, and packet collisions, caused due to lossy links and higher packet error rates, lead to congestion in the IoT network. This paper presents an adaptive congestion control protocol for CoAP, Adaptive Congestion Control with a Backoff algorithm (ACCB). AACB is an extension to our earlier protocol AdCoCoA. The proposed algorithm estimates RTT, RTTVAR, and RTO using dynamic factors instead of fixed values. Also, the backoff mechanism has dynamic factors to estimate the RTO value on retransmissions. This dynamic adaptation helps to improve CoAP performance and reduce retransmissions. The results show ACCB has significantly higher goodput (49.5%, 436.5%, 312.7%), packet delivery ratio (10.1%, 56%, 23.3%), and transmission rate (37.7%, 265%, 175.3%); compare to CoAP, CoCoA+ and AdCoCoA respectively in linear scenario. The results show ACCB has significantly higher goodput (60.5%, 482%,202.1%), packet delivery ratio (7.6%, 60.6%, 26%), and transmission rate (40.9%, 284%, 146.45%); compare to CoAP, CoCoA+ and AdCoCoA respectively in random walk scenario. ACCB has similar retransmission index compare to CoAp, CoCoA+ and AdCoCoA respectively in both the scenarios.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.133-140
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• 2013

기존의 센서 접속 기술은 그 분야에 띠라 다양한 표준과 규격이 존재하였다. 빌딩 자동제어 및 제어 네트워크용으로는 BACnet이 있으며, 공장제어 및 계측제어를 위한 Modbus 등이 다양한 프로토콜이 존재한다. 최근 M2M(Machine-to-Machine) 및 IoT(Internet of Things), WoT(Web of Things) 시대로 접어 들음에 따라 센서 및 각종 디바이스 간에 상호 통신할 수 있는 공통 프로토콜이 필요하게 되었다. IoT 프로토콜로 IEIF(Internet Engineering Task Force) CoAP(Constrained Application Protocol) 프로토콜이 핵심 역할을 하고 있으며, 차세대 센서 접속 프로토콜로 IETF CoAP이 많이 사용될 것으로 예상된다. 본고에서는 IETF CoAP 표준화 동향 및 규격에 대해 살펴본다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.569-571
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 IoT(Internet of Things) 표준 프로토콜인 IETF(Internet Engineering Task Force) CoAP(Constrained Application Protocol)을 이용한 실내 자원 제어 구조를 제시한다. 제안한 웹 기반 실내 환경 제어 구조에서는 웹 서버에 프록시(proxy)와 자원 디렉토리(RD : Resource Directory) 기능을 포함하고 있다. 이를 통해 CoAP 프로토콜을 통해 저전력, 소규모의 노드를 웹 서버에 등록하고, 프록시의 HTTP과 CoAP 메시지 변환 기능을 이용하여 사용자가 웹브라우즈를 이용하여 실내 환경을 제어할 수 있다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.301-311
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• 2021

The technological advancements of the last two decades directed the era of the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT enables billions of devices to connect through the internet and share their information and resources on a global level. These devices can be anything, from smartphones to embedded sensors. The main purpose of IoT is to make devices capable of achieving the desired goal with minimal to no human intervention. Although it hascome as a social and economic blessing, it still brought forward many security risks. This paper focuses on providing a survey of the most commonly used application layer protocols in the IoT domain, namely, Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), and Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). MQTT, AMQP, and XMPP use TCP for device-to-device communication, while CoAP utilizes UDP to achieve this purpose. MQTT and AMQP are based on a publish/subscribe model, CoAP uses the request/reply model for its structuring. In addition to this, the quality of service provision of MQTT, AMQP, and CoAP is not very high, especially when the deliverance of messages is concerned. The selection of protocols for each application is very a tedious task.This survey discusses the architectures, advantages, disadvantages, and applications of each of these protocols. The main contribution of this work is to describe each of the aforementioned application protocols in detail as well as providing their thorough comparative analysis. This survey will be helpful to the developers in selecting the protocol ideal for their system and/or application.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.298-306
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• 2016

With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) technology that allows the communications between things and devices over the Internet, a lot of researches on the IoT services, such as smart home or healthcare, have been progressed. In the existing machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, however, since the underlying link-layer technologies, such as Bluetooth or ZigBee, do not use the Internet Protocol (IP) communication, those technologies are not suitable to provide the IoT services. Accordingly, this paper discusses how to provide the Internet services in the M2M communication, and propose an implementation of the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) over 6LoWPAN for providing IoT services in the BLE networks. Based on the implementation, we compared the performance between HTTP and CoAP for IoT communications. From the experimental results, we can see that the CoAP protocol gives better performance than the HTTP protocol with two times higher throughput, 21% faster transmission time, and 22% smaller amount of generated packets.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.37-42
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• 2017

The constrained application protocol (CoAP) can be used for remotely controlling various sensor devices in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. In CoAP, to support the handover of a mobile sensor device, service discovery and message transmission needs to be repeated, although doing so would increase the handover delay significantly. To address this limitation of CoAP, a centralized CoAP scheme has been proposed. However, it tends to result in performance degradation for an inter-domain handover case. In this letter, we propose a distributed CoAP handover scheme to support the inter-domain handover. In the proposed scheme, a distributed mobility agent (DMA) is used for managing the location of mobile sensors in a domain and performing handover control operations with its neighboring DMAs in a distributed manner. A performance comparison reveals that the proposed scheme offers a performance improvement of up to 29.5% in terms of the handover delay.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.12
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• pp.1296-1306
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• 2017

Recently, as the number of Internet of Things users has increased, IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) has released the CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol). So Internet of Things have been researched actively. However, existing studies are difficult to adapt to streaming service due to low transmission rate that result from buffer underflow. In other words, one block is transmitted one block to client's one request according to the internet environment of limited resources. The proposed scheme adaptively adjusts the rate of CON(Confirmable) message among all messages for predicting the exact network condition. Based on this, the number of blocks is determined by using buffer occupancy rate and content download rate. Therefore it improves the quality of user experience by mitigating playback interruption. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme solves the buffer underflow problem in Internet of Things streaming environment by controlling transmission rate according to the network condition.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.3079-3089
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• 2015

In this paper, a smart constrained application protocol (CoAP)-based gateway with a border router is proposed for home safety services to remotely monitor the trespass, fire, and indoor air quality. The smart CoAP gateway controls a home safety sensor node with a pyroelectric infrared motion sensor, a fire sensor, a humidity and temperature sensor, and a non-dispersive infrared CO2 sensor and gathers sensing data from them. In addition, it can convert physical sensing data into understandable information and perform packet conversion as a border router for seamless connection between a low-power wireless personal area network (6LoWPAN) and the Internet (IPv6). Implementation and laboratory test results verify the feasibility of the smart CoAP gateway which especially can provide about 97.20% data throughput.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2018.07a
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• pp.135-136
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• 2018

CoAP을 사용하는 IoT 기기는 핸드오버를 시행하는 동안 주기적으로 보내야 하는 메시지를 보내지 않고 메모리에 저장한다. 그로 인한 경량 IoT 기기의 메모리 요구량의 감소를 위한 핸드오버 절차를 제안한다. 제안하는 절차에서는 센서 노드가 핸드오버 이전에 현재 기지국에 미리 핸드오버 요청을 보낸다. 따라서 센서 노드가 이웃한 기지국에게 핸드오버 요청을 했을 때, 이웃한 기지국은 현재 기지국에게 핸드오버 알림을 주지 않는다. 본 연구에서는 시뮬레이션을 통하여 제안하는 핸드오버 절차로 인한 observe 메시지의 메모리 점유율을 50%가량 줄인다.