Enhanced distributed data aggregation method in the internet of things

TL;DR

This paper introduces a distributed data aggregation method for IoT networks that improves energy efficiency and reduces congestion by balancing node roles and employing learning automata for dynamic data handling.

Contribution

It proposes a novel distributed approach for child balancing and a dynamic data aggregation method called LA-RPL using learning automata in RPL networks.

Findings

Reduces energy consumption in IoT data aggregation.

Lowers network control overhead and packet loss rate.

Enhances network stability and efficiency.

Abstract

As a novel concept in technology and communication world, \emph{"Internet of Things (IoT)"} has been emerged. In such a modern technology, the capability to transmit data through data communication networks (such as Internet or Intranet) is provided for each organism (e.g. human being, animals, things, and so forth). Due to the limited hardware and communication operational capability as well as small dimensions, IoT undergoes quite a few challenges. Such inherent challenges not only cause fundamental restrictions in the efficiency of aggregation, transmission, and communication between nodes; but they also degrade routing performance. To cope with the reduced availability time and unstable communications among nodes, data aggregation and transmission approaches in such networks are designed more intelligently. In this paper, a distributed method is proposed so as to set child balance among nodes. In this method, the height of network graph is increased through restricting the degree; and network congestion is reduced as a result. In addition, a dynamic data aggregation approach -named as LA-RPL- is proposed for RPL networks. More specifically, each node is equipped with a learning automata in order to perform data aggregation and transmissions. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms previously suggested base approaches in terms of energy consumption, network control overhead, and packet loss rate.