The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)

By Z. Shelby, K. Hartke, C. Bormann. Request for Comments, 2014

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture

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Denial-of-Service detection in 6LoWPAN based Internet of Things (2013, background): “Some possible vulnerabilities are SYN flood, protocol parsing, processing URI, proxying and caching, risk of amplification, IP address spoofing attack, cross-protocol attacks [13].”
Recent Advances in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks Toward Efficient Management in IoT (2015, background): “For the IP based solutions, IETF2 takes the lead to standardize communication protocols for resource constrained devices and develop a number of Internet protocols, including IPv6 over Low power wireless personal area networks (6LoWPAN) [8], Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Network (RPL) [9]”
Structural Health Monitoring Framework Based on Internet of Things: A Survey (2017, methodology): “Its architecture and application are shown in [22], [81], and [83]–[87].”
OpenWSN: a standards‐based low‐power wireless development environment (2012, background): “OpenWSN also supports CoAP [10], a protocol that enables RESTful interaction with individual motes, without the overhead of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and verbose nature of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).”
IoT Privacy and Security Challenges for Smart Home Environments (2016, methodology): “CoAP [22] is a HTTP-like application layer protocol designed for constrained device networks.”
M2M Service Platforms: Survey, Issues, and Enabling Technologies (2014, methodology): “The IETF Constrained RESTful Environment (CoRE) working group has defined the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) [79], which provides an application protocol to manipulate the resource of the constrained M2M devices networks and offers features for M2M applications, such as very low overheads, ”
Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things (2017, methodology): “Various schemes have been proposed to secure IoT devices, which spans over a variety of topics including but not limited to authentication schemes [120, 105], light-weight communication protocols such as CoAP [131], RPL [152], and 6LoWPAN [130], secure operating system for IoT [25], and updating in-”
An overview of the Internet of Things for people with disabilities (2012, background): “(CoAP) (Shelby et al., 2011).”
Routing Attacks and Countermeasures in the RPL-Based Internet of Things (2013, methodology): “Further, since connection-oriented web protocols such as HTTP or HTTPs are designed to be used over TCP, a new protocol, the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) [10], is being standardized for the IoT.”
Internet of Things: Architectures, Protocols, and Applications (2017, background): “It is used in most IoT applications [56, 57].”
IoT Middleware: A Survey on Issues and Enabling Technologies (2017, background): “Though 6LoWPAN [89] and CoAP [90] progress toward reducing the gap by compressing IPV6 packets, there still remains the subtle difference.”
Cognitive Machine-to-Machine Communications for Internet-of-Things: A Protocol Stack Perspective (2015, background): “Last, but not the least, IETF CoAP (Constrained Application protocol) [19] will be adopted at the application layer.”
Internet of Things: Security vulnerabilities and challenges (2015, background): “1 [14] and the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) [15].”
A Systematic Review of IoT Solutions for Smart Farming (2020, methodology): “Nonetheless, the use of CoAP creates a high coupling between the device that sends messages and the device that is expected to receive messages, as the communication is “one-to-one” [39].”
A Survey of Communication Protocols for Internet of Things and Related Challenges of Fog and Cloud Computing Integration (2018, methodology): “This protocol was designed by the Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) working group of IETF [43] for the use in constrained devices with limited processing capabilities.”
Internet of Things for Smart Cities (2014, background): “The CoAP protocol [29] overcomes these difficulties by proposing a binary format transported over UDP, handling only the retransmissions strictly required to provide a reliable service.”