Secure publish/subscribe sessions for telemetry, command channels and long-lived device connectivity.
STCP can reduce connection-establishment overhead compared with a full TLS session in measured Linux tests.
The same Rust protocol core can protect MQTT across Linux and embedded targets.
TCP and UDP carriers allow deployment-specific tuning without changing application semantics.
The existing Nordic LTE-M demonstration connects an embedded STCP client to MQTT infrastructure through the protocol stack.

Median and tail latency by payload size and network type.
Connect and reconnect costs for TCP, TLS and STCP.
CPU, memory and later power-consumption comparisons.