6. Conclusion
The diversity of nodes in IoT leads to a heterogeneous network, which can have the small world properties by in- troducing a low number of long-range links. In this paper,we proposed the GMSW model for heterogeneous sensor network of IoT. Firstly, we evaluated the small world properties of RAM, DASM and GMSW respectively. In all of those models, the addition of shortcuts is determined by a probability p. The analysis shows that, compared to RAM and DASM, and under the same probability, the average minimum path length of GMSW is reduced faster and meanwhile, its clustering coefficient decreases more slowly, which suggests that GMSW has better small world characteristics than the other two models. In addition, we evaluated the robustness of DASM and GMSW and the results indicate that, whether in the case of general failures or in the case of specific failures, the latency of GMSW is smaller than that of DASM. GMSW can perform well in the presence of a certain amount of node failures, but if the failure of SSNs is greater 986 than a threshold, the network may break down quickly. Thus, finding more factors which may improve the robust- 988 ness of network and taking these factors into account for a better solution will be the future work.