An energy-conserving approach for data formatting and trusted document exchange in resource-constrained networks

Lightweight data formatting and document exchanging schemes are of interest in conserving energy while exchanging documents, particularly in the resource constrained networks (RCNs). This paper presents an energy-conserving, lightweight method for data representation and trusted document exchange. It is based on a format derived from the YAML Ain’t Markup Language (YAML), a lightweight data serialization language and includes a schema extraction process to separate data from its structure. The resultant schema is useful for thinning the data format and also for checking the rewriting attacks. The rewriting attack is checked using a two-tiered approach. It is observed that the proposed document format is less verbose and more energy conserving than XML and other popular non-binary formats. The format can be used to represent non-document data also.