I'm trying to build a system in which I can connect some devices to a server over the internet. I want to stream some data over CoAP (10-30FPS), frame size = 3KB. Firstly, I used Aiocoap, it sends up to 100FPS but uses too much CPU, requests are NON, got low lose rate in Aiocoap, while Eclipse/Californium could not send more than 3FPS, when i use higher FPS, either I receive only the first block of each message or receiving nothing, also not ordered most of the times.
I was wondering if this is the real performance of Californium or am I using it in a wrong way?
I will share some code:
server.java
static class CoapObserverServer extends CoapResource {
int i = -1;
public CoapObserverServer() {
super("alarm");
setObservable(true); // enable observing
setObserveType(Type.NON); // configure the notification type to CONs
getAttributes().setObservable(); // mark observable in the Link-Format
System.out.println(this);
// schedule a periodic update task, otherwise let events call changed()
//new Timer().schedule(new UpdateTask(), 0, 1000/2);
}
private class UpdateTask extends TimerTask {
@Override
public void run() {
changed(); // notify all observers
}
}
@Override
public void handleGET(CoapExchange exchange) {
// the Max-Age value should match the update interval
exchange.setMaxAge(1);
//++i;
int leng = 2000;
String s = "" + i + "-" + fillString('X', leng - 1 - Integer.toString(i).len>
exchange.respond(s);
}
public static String fillString(char fillChar, int count){
// creates a string of 'x' repeating characters
char[] chars = new char[count];
while (count>0) chars[--count] = fillChar;
return new String(chars);
}
@Override
public void handleDELETE(CoapExchange exchange) {
delete(); // will also call clearAndNotifyObserveRelations(ResponseCode.NOT_>
exchange.respond(ResponseCode.DELETED);
}
@Override
public void handlePUT(CoapExchange exchange) {
exchange.accept();
int format = exchange.getRequestOptions().getContentFormat();
if (format == MediaTypeRegistry.TEXT_PLAIN) {
// ...
String plain = exchange.getRequestText();
try{
i = Integer.valueOf(plain);
} catch(NumberFormatException ex){
System.out.println("error converting string"+ plain);
}
exchange.respond(ResponseCode.CHANGED);
changed(); // notify all observers
}
}
Observer.java
private static final File CONFIG_FILE = new File("Californium3.properties");
private static final String CONFIG_HEADER = "Californium CoAP Properties file for client";
private static final int DEFAULT_MAX_RESOURCE_SIZE = 2 * 1024 * 1024; // 2 MB
private static final int DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE = 512;
static {
CoapConfig.register();
UdpConfig.register();
}
private static DefinitionsProvider DEFAULTS = new DefinitionsProvider() {
@Override
public void applyDefinitions(Configuration config) {
config.set(CoapConfig.MAX_RESOURCE_BODY_SIZE, DEFAULT_MAX_RESOURCE_SIZE);
config.set(CoapConfig.MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE, DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE);
config.set(CoapConfig.PREFERRED_BLOCK_SIZE, DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE);
}
};
private static class AsynchListener implements CoapHandler {
@Override
public void onLoad(CoapResponse response) {
System.out.println( response.getResponseText() );
}
@Override
public void onError() {
System.err.println("Error");
}
}
/*
* Application entry point.
*/
public static void main(String args[]) {
Configuration config = Configuration.createWithFile(CONFIG_FILE, CONFIG_HEADER, DEFAULTS);
Configuration.setStandard(config);
URI uri = null; // URI parameter of the request
if (args.length > 0) {
// input URI from command line arguments
try {
uri = new URI(args[0]);
} catch (URISyntaxException e) {
System.err.println("Invalid URI: " + e.getMessage());
System.exit(-1);
}
CoapClient client = new CoapClient(uri);
client.useNONs();
// observe
AsynchListener asynchListener = new AsynchListener();
CoapObserveRelation observation = client.observe(asynchListener);
// User presses ENTER to exit
System.out.println("Press ENTER to exit...");
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
try { br.readLine(); } catch (IOException e) { }
System.out.println("Exiting...");
observation.proactiveCancel();
}
So i'm controlling the FPS by sending PUT requests with a server that has a counter 0-50.
Not sure, what your doing. That seems to be wired and not related to RFC7252 nor RFC7641.
CoAP is designed for REST, I don't see any benefit in using it for video streaming.
Using Eclipse/Californium on a Intel n6005 with 16GB RAM, the CoAP/DTLS server runs on about 60000 requests/second. The benchmark uses 2000 clients in parallel.
See also Eclipse/Californium - Benchmarks j5005
Using only one client with CON requests, the performance is mainly limited by the RTT. 30 requests/second should work, if that RTT is accordingly small.
Using NON requests doesn't really help. CoAP RFC7252 defines two layers, a messaging layer and an application layer. NON affects only the messaging layer, but a NON request will wait for it's response, if NSTART-1 should be used.
If your RTT is the issue, you may try to escape that either using requests with "No Server Response" (RFC7967) or multiple NON responses (RFC7641). The first is not intended for fast requests, the second is more a work-around of the initial statement, that CoAP is REST not video-streaming.
So, what is your RTT?