Performance evaluation of a SIP-based constrained peer-to-peer overlay

In recent years, due to the development and innovation in hardware and software, the scenario of a global worldwide network capable of interconnecting both traditional nodes and new Smart Objects (the Internet of Things) is coming true. The Internet of Things (IoT) will involve billions of communicating heterogeneous devices, using different protocols in order to enable new forms of interaction between things and people. In this context, due to scalability, fault-tolerance, and self-configuration requirements, peer-to-peer(P2P) architectures are very appealing in many large-scale IoT scenarios. However, due to memory, processing, and power limitations of constrained devices, the use of specific signaling protocols for the maintenance of the P2P overlay is a critical point. In this paper we present a performance evaluation of a real DHT-based P2P overlay in order to understand the benefits in terms of bandwidth consumption and transmitted/received data when a constrained SIP-based protocol, denoted as CoSIP, is used as P2P signaling protocol.