Application Layer Protocols for Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT)
Malti Bansal, Priya -
Abstract
In the past two decades, Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a disruptive technology which is now being extensively used in various domains such as laboratory, construction and home automation, industrial systems, medical and health care, transportation, communication, manufacturing etc. Among these numerous applications, one of the most significant developments due to IoT is in the field of medical and health care; further growth and improvements in which are highly anticipated in the near future. The incorporation of IoT in health care is broadly termed as IoHT (Internet of Healthcare Things). IoHT mainly deals with the interconnection of the network of medical devices and body sensors with the cloud through wireless connections which involve the collection, analysis, sorting and processing of health data. Health devices which gather real-time data use appropriate protocols for efficient machine-to-machine data communication and secure connection. In this paper, we evaluate and compare several application layer protocols that are used for IoHT such as CoAP, HTTP, XMPP, AMQP, RESTful, MQTT, etc.