Towards an MQTT5 geo-location extension for location-aware applications

Felicien Ihirwe (1, 2) , Giovanni Iovino (1) , Davide Di Ruscio (3)

1 INTECS
2 DISIM - Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics = Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell'Informazione e Matematica [L'Aquila]
3 UNIVAQ - Università degli Studi dell'Aquila = University of L'Aquila

Location-aware applications are becoming popular nowadays because of the increasing adoption of edge and fog computing. This poses novel difficulties to the conventional applications that utilize the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) as their prevalent communication channel. Also, developers are obliged to figure out the code at whatever point they need to build up MQTT-based location-aware applications. This can causes various issues, for example, protocol standard infringement or problems in data acquisition. This paper proposes a novel extension of the recently released MQTT5 protocol that will permit message delivery by not only respecting the topics of interest but also in addition to geo-referenced information provided by both publishers and subscribers.

Mots clés: MQTT5; wireless networks; location-aware applications

Domaines: Ingénierie, finance et science [cs.CE]

Felicien Ihirwe, Giovanni Iovino, Davide Di Ruscio. Towards an MQTT5 geo-location extension for location-aware applications. 44th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), Jul 2021, Virtual, Czech Republic. ⟨hal-03268394⟩