The deployment of an IoT zero configuration network using mDNS and DNS-SD

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Communication Department, Electrical Engineering, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt.

10.1088/asat.2023.344375

Abstract

Growth of IoT networks is exponentially increasing. IoT is evolving as an integral part in both of our daily lives and the industry. IoT is highly pervasive in many applications today. Smart grids, smart retail, smart transportation, smart agriculture, and home automation are all examples of IoT applications. IoT devices are linked together to fulfil variuos needs for a user in an application. IoT systems are multi-layered networks with layers for perception, network, data processing and application. The perception layer can interact with physical objects and entities in IoT network through nodes. Adding new nodes to the network should be easy for the user. In most of IoT systems, adding new nodes requires that user should conifgure both the node and the netwrok. This paper proposes the architecture and methodology of an IoT network with zero configuration. Additional nodes merely need to be turned on in the IoT zero configuration
netwrok; no configuration is needed to add new nodes. By using a node along with a WiFi transceiver, such a system can be made available as a service. The WiFi transceiver will benefit from mDNS and DNS-SD protocols to build IoT system with zero configuration network.

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