Guaranteed Publisher/Subscriber Anonymity with Interest Profiles for Smart Cities Applications: Trends and Gaps

Studies carried out in the context of anonymous Publisher/Subscriber (MQTT protocol) and with a profile of interest, are topics that the literature and the IoT (Internet of Things) industry face to implement models, architecture and architectural patterns, mainly related to anonymity, and the profile of interest there is nothing in literature or industry. In this way, the creation of an architecture based on these themes can facilitate the communication of IoT devices in smart cities. Therefore, this article aims to identify in the literature/industry how to guarantee the anonymity of Publisher/Subscriber with interest profiles using the MQTT protocol, and as future works to create an architecture based on the theme so that it can be used by academia and industry. IoT. The search string returned 291 (Two hundred and Ninety-One) works, of which 4 (Four) were selected according to the criteria of the Systematic Literature Review.