212Building Smarter Planet Solutions with MQTT and IBM WebSphere MQ Telemetry
B.1 MQTT concepts
In this section we describe the following concepts of the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol:
Quality of service levels and flows
QoS determination
QoS Impact on performance
Client identifier
Durable and non-durable subscribers with MQTT
Understanding MQTT persistence
Message overhead
Keep alive handling
Retry message delivery
Last will and testament
Retained Flag on Messages
TCP/IP overhead
Message format
Command messages
B.1.1 Quality of service levels and flows
Quality of service (QoS) levels should be understood by every user of MQTT. A QoS value
determines how each message will be delivered and must be specified for every message ...
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