7. Conclusions and future work
In this paper we discussed the challenges of DSA based secondary routing in a D2D IoT network. We proposed SpEED-IoT, a spectrum aware, energy efficient multi-channel multi-hop routing technique among IoT devices with the aid of a spectrum map created by ESC sensors. A transmission power control based selective flooding technique is proposed to spread the route requests in the network without causing network wide transmission overhead. We analyzed the connectivity condition among IoT devices using such methods. As part of the SpEED-IoT scheme, an evolutionary game theoretic model is also proposed that uses a dynamic learning algorithm to assign conflict free end-to-end routes to interfering SD pairs without compromising effective data rate and assignment fairness. Using an extensive simulation based testbed evaluation, we showed the SpEED-IoT performance in terms of ensuring IoT network connectivity, end-to-end data rate optimization, primary receiver protection, and route assignment fairness.
As part of future work, we will analyze the performance of our proposed scheme both theoretically and experimentally for different primary environments and IoT networks in terms of operational spectrum bands (such 3.5 GHz, TV white space), primary transmission characteristics, spectrum characteristics, and heterogeneous secondary IoT device communication mode/capabilities (full duplex). Finally, as part of long-term future plans, we plan to implement the proposed scheme and its future extensions into a newly developed software-defined radio enabled indoor IoT testbed for empirical results.