Zest: REST over ZeroMQ

Moore, John; Arcia-Moret, Andres; Yadav, Poonam; Mortier, Richard; Brown, Anthony; McAuley, Derek; Crabtree, Andy; Greenhalgh, Chris; Haddadi, Hamed; Amar, Yousef

Abstract

© 2019 IEEE. In this paper we introduce, Zest (REST over ZeroMQ), a middleware technology in support of an Internet of Things (IoT). Our work is influenced by the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) but emphasises systems that can support fine-grained access control to both resources and audit information, and can provide features such as asynchronous communication patterns between nodes. We achieve this by using a hybrid approach that combines a RESTful architecture with a variant of a publisher/subscriber topology that has enhanced routing support. The primary motivation for Zest is to provide inter-component communications in the Databox, but it is applicable in other contexts where tight control needs to be maintained over permitted communication patterns.

Citation

Moore, J., Arcia-Moret, A., Yadav, P., Mortier, R., Brown, A., McAuley, D., …Amar, Y. (2019). Zest: REST over ZeroMQ. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops) (1015-1019). https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2019.8730686

• Conference Name: Third International Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust in the Internet of Things
• Conference Location: Kyoto, Japan
• Start Date: Mar 11, 2019
• End Date: Mar 15, 2019
• Acceptance Date: Dec 22, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Jun 6, 2019
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: Feb 14, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 21, 2019
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Pages: 1015-1019
• Book Title: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)
• ISBN: 9781538691526
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2019.8730686
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1547750
• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8730686
• Related Public URLs: https://sites.google.com/view/spt-iot/home