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The popularity of Resource-Constrained Networks (RCNs) is increasing rapidly in value, volume, velocity, variety, and veracity. The limited battery power and verbosity of messages are the major limiting factors in the constrained wireless mobile environment. Hence, devising a standard that is adaptive to the limitations of the present-day wireless mobile environment is crucial for the emerging generations of constrained wireless mobile devices; it is also expected to accelerate the penetration of wireless mobile technologies to the underprivileged class of users. The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is the natural standard for messaging across heterogeneous types of mobile devices. But it is not suitable in the wireless mobile environment, due to the increased storage and processing requirements needed. This work presents a lightweight Policy-Based Messaging (PBM) mechanism for trusted transmission of information that can be used especially in Resource-Constrained Networks (RCNs). The work is based on a data format which is less verbose. The data format is derived from the YAML Aint Markup Language (YAML), a lightweight data serialization language. Proposals include measures to define policy assertions and a two-level mechanism to make sure trusted transmission of information. The performance analysis indicates an advantage over the existing methods.
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The author of this paper would like to thank University Grants Commission SWRO Bangalore for sponsoring this work (1646-MRP-/14-15/KLCA028/UGC-SWRO).
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Abdul Haleem, P.P. (2021). A Lightweight Approach for Policy-Based Messaging. In: Suma, V., Bouhmala, N., Wang, H. (eds) Evolutionary Computing and Mobile Sustainable Networks. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 53. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5258-8_38
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