A reliable, multi-path, connection oriented and independent transport protocol for IoT networks

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) connects a large volume of devices together, via different modes of wired and wireless communication interfaces. The existing transport layer protocols, like TCP and UDP as well as their variants, lack functionality to handle the diverge and heterogeneous communication standards while ensuring the IoT transport requirements like short-lived packet or message transfer, short duration real-time flow transfer with guaranteed delay, ensuring message reliability etc. In this work, we develop a reliable, connection-oriented, multi-path, IP-independent transport layer protocol to handle IoT requirements. This protocol is able to use all the available network interfaces in a multi-homed mobile IoT device. It can also provide seamless connection between server-client even if devices change its underlying IP network.