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17 May 2017 | paper.bib |
Summary
Mosquitto provides standards compliant server and client implementations of the MQTT messaging protocol. MQTT uses a publish/subscribe model, has low network overhead and can be implemented on low power devices such microcontrollers that might be used in remote Internet of Things sensors. As such, Mosquitto is intended for use in all situations where there is a need for lightweight messaging, particularly on constrained devices with limited resources.
The Mosquitto project is a member of the Eclipse Foundation
There are three parts to the project.
- The main
mosquittoserver - The
mosquitto_pubandmosquitto_subclient utilities that are one method of communicating with an MQTT server - An MQTT client library written in C, with a C++ wrapper
Mosquitto allows research directly related to the MQTT protocol itself, such as comparing the performance of MQTT and the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) [@Thangavel_2014] or investigating the use of OAuth in MQTT [@Fremantle_2014]. Mosquitto supports other research activities as a useful block for building larger systems and has been used to evaluate MQTT for use in Smart City Services [@Antonic_2015], and in the development of an environmental monitoring system [@Bellavista_2017]. Mosquitto has also been used to support research less directly as part of a scheme for remote control of an experiment [@Schulz_2014].
Outside of academia, Mosquitto is used in other open source projects such as the openHAB home automation project and OwnTracks, the personal location tracking project, and has been integrated into commercial products.