Design and Implementation of Push Notification System Based on the MQTT Protocol

Abstract

is a broker-based publishing/subscribing, instant messaging protocol. It's designed to be open, simple, lightweight and easy to implement. This paper described a method of pushing notification system based on the MQTT protocol. It can be used to solve the problem of instant pushing various messages from the server to the mobile client. This method is suitable for developing the smartphone applications. This paper also carried out research and design on the realization of MQTT protocol. With support of the proxy server message broker, the protocol put forward solutions for the server sending the specified messages to the specified mobile devices and the mobile clients receiving pushed messages from the server.