A lot of research is going on in the field of interfacing Internet of Things(IoT) and other small ad-hoc networks such as Wireless Sensor Networks. As far as MANETs are concerned, they are already IPv6 enabled and can be integrated with IoT environment. What will be the research issues in interfacing IoT with MANETs?
Thank you... I am looking for research on QoS when MANETs are connected to the Internet.
Thank you Asma... But the links you shared tell about QoS in standalone MANETs. What about when MANETs are connected to Internet in IoT environment and tasks emerging from the internet require the services of MANET nodes. What issues can we have in that scenario?
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There are challenges for an eventual convergence of IoT into the Radio Access Network (RAN) as part of LTE (5G or whatever comes next).
IoT main requirement is energy efficiency, as end nodes are typically energy constrained. While RAN is typically optimised for throughput and mobility. There is no trivial solution for this but several attempts instead. Weightless (from Neul, see: http://goo.gl/Tp24IT) is one road. There are others, e.g. SigFox's ultra-narrow band proposal (see: http://goo.gl/yAVBt8) and LoRa (from Semtech, see: http://goo.gl/OnKmDN).
I'd say main challenges are not in routing. Instead, security and privacy, virtualisation and cloud computing are active research areas related to IoT.
Moreover, the novelty in those existing solutions include: (i) new business models, (ii) operation in unlicensed spectrum, which is free (big savings compared to spectrum leasing) but requires special attention to interference and coexistence in the design of the PHY and DATA LINK layers, and (iii) large radio range and low-bandwidth provides for a relatively much smaller number of base stations to cover a given area, compared to "traditional" LTE RAN.
Hope it helps.
One of the IOT application is in the healthcare and medical applications that promise to solve many problems which are currently challenging the sector, ranging from remotely caring for our aging population to medical discoveries on serious diseases.
Concerns have been raised in relation to the IoT Identification Management (IDM) issues, in which each Thing (user and device) will be required to have a unique identity, and the IDM to be able to distinguish between a device and user, as well as ensuring identity and information context safety.
a new Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is introduced to be able to support issues related to IDM with several personal attributes and mobility.
This will apply to devices (i.e. Things) as well as humans. Each device (or Thing) in a MANET is capable of independent movement in any direction, and should be capable of replacing its links to the other devices in the network frequently and seamlessly.
The new MANET-based flexible and efficient IDM framework are expected to meet the current and future needs of IDM within the domain of IoT and ubiquitous computing environments in general.
you can check following paper..
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214212617301680
Chapter The Role of Ad Hoc Networks in the Internet of Things: A Cas...
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