CoCoA+: an advanced congestion control mechanism for CoAP

The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) has been designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Due to the limited radio channel capacities and hardware resources of such devices, congestion can be a serious problem. CoAP addresses this important iss...

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Autores: Betzler, August, Gómez Montenegro, Carlos|||0000-0002-4186-8418, Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin|||0000-0002-8026-5337, Paradells Aspas, Josep|||0000-0003-4185-2202
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2015
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositório:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/84808
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/84808
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2015.04.007
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Internet of things
Computer networks
CoAP
Congestion control
Internet de les coses
Ordinadors, Xarxes d'
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadors::Internet
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadors::Protocols de comunicació
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Resumo:The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) has been designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Due to the limited radio channel capacities and hardware resources of such devices, congestion can be a serious problem. CoAP addresses this important issue with a basic congestion control mechanism. CoCoA, an Internet-Draft proposal, introduced alternative congestion control mechanisms for CoAP. Yet, there has been limited evaluation of these congestion control mechanisms in the literature. In this paper, we assess the methods applied in CoCoA in detail and propose improvements to address the shortcomings observed in the congestion control mechanisms. We carry out simulations to compare the congestion control performance for default CoAP, CoCoA, and our new proposal, CoCoA+, in a variety of network topologies and use cases. The results show that CoCoA+ outperforms default CoAP and achieves better results than CoCoA in the majority of considered cases.