The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is a specialized Internet application protocol designed for constrained devices, primarily those integrated within IoT networks.

With HTTP’s protocol overhead, how will billions of low-power, low-cost IoT devices communicate on the Internet?

Not all connected devices are made equal. While some are more powerful and technologically advanced, others are simple sensors and home automation devices ...

RFC 7252, also known as the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), is about to become one of the most abused protocols in terms of DDoS attacks, security researchers have told ZDNet. If readers ...

CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol) CoAP is a specialized IoT protocol designed for resource-constrained devices, such as low-power sensors.

Three major real-time protocols are used by IoT devices today: XMPP, CoAP, and MQTT. Interestingly enough, XMPP started life as Jabber, an open instant messenger protocol.

Smart cities are warned to revisit their operational technology (OT) security after major design flaws uncovered in machine-to-machine IoT protocols could threaten to put the lights out.

Part I--Devices and Local NetworksPart II--The ThingIn the previous two articles, I described the hardware and software required to build an IoT device.

These include CoAP and MQTT, together with the web methods of XMPP and RESTful HTTP. The constrained application protocol (CoAP), which was brought to life by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF ...