________________________________________ From: iotivity-dev@lists.iotivity.org [iotivity-dev@lists.iotivity.org] on behalf of yitzc...@coapp.co.il [yitzc...@coapp.co.il] Sent: 31 October 2018 19:16 To: iotivity-dev@lists.iotivity.org Subject: Re: [dev] Maintaining a connection from Coap devices to the iotivity cloud
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 03:26 AM, Ondrej Tomcik wrote: What do you need such an often keep alive exchange for? If a connection breaks, the Coap device will no longer receive requests. Therefore I need it to try to reconnect as soon as this happens. The only existing mechanism I am aware of telling if the connection is broken is via the PING/PONG mechanism. -> yes, thats what ping pong is for. In case the connection was not closed gracefuly, you are waiting for a tcp timeout. If you want to know if the device is online, thats the only way. But you have to consider your requirements, how accurate information about the device status has to be? Additionaly, you should introduce timeouts for your requests. So not only ping the device every 5 seconds, what is actually a bad idea, but handle also request timeouts and flag the device as not reachable for example. Its your business logic, based on your requirements and SLAs. What kind of load? Not necessarily a specific load, but assuming an IOT cloud with thousands or more devices, I will expect the devices themselves to initiate the ping instead of the gateway, in order to take of some load from the gateway, but I guess this point is not clearcut. What is the purpose of the ping pong? To provide an accurate information if the device is there ( and delay statistics for example, ... ). Who is interested if the device is there? Cloud user. Who owns information if the device is online? Cloud. Cloud is the one who owns and maintains this information. Cloud should be responsible to ping the device to check if it is online. Device is not interested if cloud is there. You may have ping configuration per device, for some specific SLA use cases, but its cloud who has to accurately provide this information. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9982): https://lists.iotivity.org/g/iotivity-dev/message/9982 Mute This Topic: https://lists.iotivity.org/mt/27796570/21656 Group Owner: iotivity-dev+ow...@lists.iotivity.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.iotivity.org/g/iotivity-dev/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
