March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
410 pages
10h 40m
English
CoAP also introduces two new communication patterns: multicast and Event Subscription or Observe as it is called in CoAP. Since CoAP is based on UDP and UDP supports multicasting, using the Internet Group Management Protocol, or IGMP, CoAP messages can also be multicast, at least when encryption is not used. This is done by sending CoAP messages to predefined multicast addresses.
Multicasting not only allows for efficient distribution, it also allows clients to find CoAP devices with multicast support by multicasting requests. Multicasting a request and monitoring responses allows ...
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