testing protocols using IoT simulation

Question

If I set up an IOT simulation such as the greenhouse tutorial Kura how would I test the protocols MQTT and CoAP? How would I receive information such as speed, the number of packets dropped, the traffic created etc? Are there any tools I could use.

http://iot.eclipse.org/java/tutorial/

that's the greenhouse page

thanks.

Answer 1

To test and analyze any protocol information your best bet is to get wireshark which is free to use and is a pretty powerful networking tool in general.

This article talks about using wireshark specifically for IoT protocol testing and should be plenty to get you going.

https://iotprotocols.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/speedtests-in-a-simulated-iot-scenario-with-the-coap-protocol/