28 Building Smarter Planet Solutions with MQTT and IBM WebSphere MQ Telemetry
Client identifier
The client identifier is a 23-byte string that identifies an MQTT client. Each identifier must be
unique to only one connected client at a time. In order to keep the identifier short and unique,
developers typically introduce an identifier generation mechanism, such as creating it from
the 48-bit device MAC address. If transmission size is not a critical issue, you may use the
remaining 17 bytes to make the address easier to administer, such as by inserting some
human-readable text in the identifier.
Retained publications
Publications (messages) for a given topic can be retained and delivered when new
subscribers sign up for the topic. Publishers must ...