Impact and Analysis of Environment Temperature on MQTT Performance Using Raspberry PI 3

Impact and Analysis of Environment Temperature on MQTT Performance Using Raspberry PI 3
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Volume-71 Issue-10
Year of Publication : 2023
Author : Bouchra Allaoui, Ahmed Mouhsen, Mohamed Lamhamdi, Rachid Dakir
DOI : 10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V71I10P209

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Bouchra Allaoui, Ahmed Mouhsen, Mohamed Lamhamdi, Rachid Dakir, "Impact and Analysis of Environment Temperature on MQTT Performance Using Raspberry PI 3," International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology, vol. 71, no. 10, pp. 94-104, 2023. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V71I10P209

Abstract
This study aims to present and discuss the impact of increasing the environment temperature on CPU usage, memory usage, processor temperature, and response time when the number of clients increases. In this work, the MQTT protocol with different QoS levels is used. A testbed system comprises a laptop, a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, an air conditioner, a DS18B20 thermometer, and a WiFi access point. The two first hardware functions as multiple MQTT clients and an MQTT broker, respectively. Note that the Raspberry Pi is chosen because the community widely accepts it, whereas the purpose of collecting the MQTT clients in a single machine is to increase their number up to 201 automatically. For each number of clients, metrics such as the environment temperature, CPU usage, memory usage, and processor temperature continue to be measured until the number of clients reaches the 66400th PUBLISH packet, while the response time metric is determined by calculating the duration between the CONNECT and the 66400th PUBLISH packets. In this experiment, the environment temperature is varied using the air conditioner for each QoS level. The results indicate that the high environment temperature can either increase the CPU usage and decrease the response time or keep constant the CPU usage and increase the response time.

Keywords
CPU usage, Environment temperature, Internet of Things, MQTT protocol, Response time.

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