RELOAD/CoAP P2P Overlays for Network Coding Based Constrained Environments

The Internet of Things will bring into the Internet all kinds of smart systems, which will be able to interact with each other. Therefore, applications relying on data sharing for collaboration will increase, and effective distributed solutions for data storage become necessary. This need led to the proposal of a CoAP Usage for RELOAD, a generic P2P protocol that accepts pluggable application layers (Usages). This allows P2P overlay networks to be built where constrained systems store their data and clients are able to retrieve it. Since many smart systems rely on wireless networks to communicate, where network coding can be used to reduce packet error rate, P2P overlays should be prepared to store data from network coding based networks. More specifically, encoding vectors and encoded data must be stored, and a decoding service is required. In this article, we propose a CoAP Usage extension so that network coding based constrained networks can use RELOAD/CoAP P2P distributed storage.