Abstract
Converging of MANET with WSN used in ubiquitous smart environments opens new prospect in monitoring the large scale urban area and makes a new communication platform for different applications in Internet of Things (IoT) domain. Sensors used for IoT applications, sense the environment and send the data to the gateway node, which in turn send the collected data to the MANET node, especially used for data harvesting. Here we considered two IoT applications which are monitored by wireless sensor nodes. The challenging part of this work is to make a platform by converging sensor network with the MANET network because nodes have different power levels, heterogeneous protocols and have chances of co-channel interferences. We proposed a total solution which includes network protocols, spectrum distribution, node deployment, MANET routing and mobility pattern and finally implementation of the IoT applications which are simulated using Omnet++ simulator and shown their performances and feasibility.
1. Introduction
A recent paradigm of communication which popularly known as Internet of Things (IoT), where all the objects of different kinds of our daily life spanning from smart phones, sensors or devices are associated with network enabled objects (like RFID) can communicate with each other and makes a part of Internet. The main aim of IoT is to make Internet more and more inspiring and pervasive. By connecting wide variety of heterogeneous devices and making easy access of the devices, several applications are being used in IoT, which deals with the large number of data generated by the attached devices and make some decisions which is very important for the industry or control the attached devices based on the generated data. There is a huge use of IoT in several domains like medical aids, home automation, industrial automation, mobile health care, electricity transmission and distribution etc. Now a day smart cities are one of the emerging domain of IoT, where researchers are proposing several communication models and standards and provide some applications which facilitate the residing citizens by enhancing their everyday standard of life.
6. Conclusion
In this paper we have proposed a new architecture of IoT networks, where sensor networks and MANET are combined together for efficient communication with the Internet Gateways. We have considered two different applications of IoT network with different MAC layer protocols at the sensor nodes. For coexistence of different technology used by different type of nodes, we have proposed some frequency allocation scheme among these nodes. And finally we have shown the performance of the network and feasibility of our implementation by simulating our proposed IoT network models for different applications. Security is one of the important issues in IoT, which is not taken care in the proposed model except UUID in soccer model. Thus future work will be incorporating security issues in our present work.
