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Comparison Functionalities of HTTP and MQTT Protocols

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31st International Conference on Organization and Technology of Maintenance (OTO 2022) (OTO 2022)

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The mission and goal of this paper was to compare functionalities for both MQTT and HTTP protocol on the same example to see the advantages and disadvantages of sending and receiving data from server/device. Used tools are Android Studio, Kotlin, NestJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and in implementation two protocols were used: HTTP and MQTT protocols to determine advantages and disadvantages of the protocols, several examples are given where a particular protocol could be used in the development of mobile/IoT applications. While talking about MQTT and HTTP protocols, HTTP is one of the globally most used protocols for communication on the World Wide Web (Internet), when MQTT is for sure most used for connecting more devices in the networking called IoT (Internet of Things). Main goal is to show that MQTT can be also used in the mobile application, for example as notification service (server is notifying mobile devices).

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek, Osijek, 31000, Republic of Croatia

    Tomislav Kušević, Damir Blažević & Tomislav Keser

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia

    Damir Blažević

  2. Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Naida Ademović

  3. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia

    Tomislav Barić

  4. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Slavonski Brod, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

    Josip Cumin

  5. Technical Faculty “Mihajlo Pupin”, University of Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Serbia

    Eleonora Desnica

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Kušević, T., Blažević, D., Keser, T. (2023). Comparison Functionalities of HTTP and MQTT Protocols. In: Blažević, D., Ademović, N., Barić, T., Cumin, J., Desnica, E. (eds) 31st International Conference on Organization and Technology of Maintenance (OTO 2022). OTO 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 592. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21429-5_5

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