MQTT4SSN Ontology

MQTT4SSN v1.0: CEUR workshop proceedings release
Publication date
2025-11-13
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English
Keyword
MQTT
Ontology engineering
Sensor ontology
Semantic sensor network
Message protocol
Smart sensors
Abstract
MQTT4SSN is an ontology representing the MQTT transport protocol, containing the transmitted data. It extends the W3C SSN/SOSA ontology with the MQTT transport protocol component and uses the WoT MQTT to RDF draft as an ontology design pattern.
Description
The ontology captures the essential elements of MQTT, such as the network entities broker and client, the various control packets and their payloads, the topics that organize communication, and the interrelations between these components. The ontology covers the following key features:
- Supports main MQTT control packets: PUBLISH, SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE
- Enables representation of heterogeneous payload formats and character encodings
- Alignment with the well-established W3C SSN/SOSA ontology
- Models the relation between MQTT topic naming and SOSA elements such as FeatureOfInterest, Property, Actuation, ActuationCollection, Observation, and ObservationCollection
Cite as
Doerner, N., & Maleshkova, M. (2025). MQTT4SSN: An Ontology for the MQTT Message Protocol. In F. Novakazi & A. S. Dalal (Eds.), Joint Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP 2025) and the 1st Workshop on Bridging Hybrid Intelligence and the Semantic Web (HAIBRIDGE 2025), co-located with ISWC 2025 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 4093, pp. 57–70). CEUR-WS.org. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16704302
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