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Fundamentals of IoT Communication Technologies

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Chapters 3 and 4 provided a detailed account of the most relevant physical, link, network, and transport layer mechanisms relevant to IoT. Applications, however, interact with these technologies by means of application layer protocols that, in the context of IoT, mainly support session management and control. This chapter explores several application layer protocols that fall under the umbrella of two possible architectures: request/response and publish/subscribe. Specifically, these IoT protocols and architectures are presented and analyzed from a perspective of both performance and security.

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Herrero, R. (2022). Application Layer. In: Fundamentals of IoT Communication Technologies. Textbooks in Telecommunication Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70080-5_5

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