Abstract:With the occurrence of Internet of Things (IoT) era, the proliferation of sensors coupled with increasing usage of wireless spectrums especially the ISM band makes it difficult to deploy real-life IoT. Currently, the cognitive radio technology enables sensors transmit data packets among them through the licensed spectrum bands as well as the free ISM bands. Cognitive radio technology has been believed as a promising solution to the congestion problem of spectrum utilization. The dynamic spectrum access technology enables secondary users (SUs) access wireless channel bands that is originally licensed to primary users (PUs). Due to the high dynamic of spectrum availability, it is a challenge to design an efficient routing approach for SUs in Cognitive Sensor Networks (CSNs). We estimate the spectrum availability and spectrum quality from the view of both the global statistical spectrum usage and local instant spectrum status, and then introduce novel routing metrics to consider the estimation. In our novel routing metrics, one retransmission is allowed to restrict the number of rerouting and then increase the routing performance. Then, the related two routing algorithms according to the proposed routing metrics are designed. Finally, our routing algorithms in extensive simulations are implemented to estimate the routing performance, and we find that the proposed algorithms achieve a significant performance improvement compared with the reference algorithm.Keywords: internet of thing; IoT; cognitive sensor networks; forwarding; spectrum-availability; retransmission
IntroductionCurrently, more and more objects with capacity of computing and wireless communication are being designed and deployed to construct pervasive computing environments, which leads to the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) [1]. With the wide deployment of wireless objects and mobile applications, the unlicensed portions of wireless spectrums especially the ISM band have become increasingly crowded. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stated current spectrum resources are static allocated and utilized in some limited geographical regions, and that the expectation of utilization is largely under-utilized [2]. To efficiently increase the ratio of the spectrum usage, cognitive radio emerged as a promising solution to the problem of low ratio of spectrum utilization [3,4]. In cognitive radio environments, primary users (PUs) coexist with secondary users (SUs), in which SUs usually carry cognitive radio devices, which enable them scan and sense the surrounding spectrum utilization; when finding spectral holes, in which no PUs access the related spectrum bands, Sus can opportunistically access these spectrums by adjusting their spectrum bands dynamically; in the process of spectrum usage, an SU should abandon its spectrum band at once and then switch to other available spectrum band when a PU arrives.Recently, researchers have gained much attention to multi-hop Cognitive Sensor Network (CRSN) [5][6][7][8][9]. A multi-hop CRSN consists...