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The Internet of Things (IoT) will change our lives. It will be present in every application’s domain: transportation, healthcare, home, and city. Everyone is connected due to his smartphone which is considered as the first thing connected to the Internet but it’s still not the real revolution of the Internet of Things. Our contribution is to propose an approach to secure the communication using the MQTT protocol after making a comparison between the different application protocols used in IoT as MQTT, CoAP, HTTP, and AMQP. Finally, we propose a new approach to secure the protocol MQTT with the highest level of security.
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Sahmi, I., Mazri, T., Hmina, N. (2021). The Security of MQTT Against the Applications Protocols for IoT. In: Ben Ahmed, M., Rakıp Karaș, İ., Santos, D., Sergeyeva, O., Boudhir, A.A. (eds) Innovations in Smart Cities Applications Volume 4. SCA 2020. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 183. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66840-2_87
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