Congestion control in constrained Internet of Things networks
Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing technology that remotely connects multiple devices (ranging across many fields and applications) over the Internet. The scalability of an IoT network mandates a reliable transport infrastructure. Traditional transport control protocol (TCP) control...
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| author | Lotfi Mhamdi Hussam Abdul Khalek |
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| description | Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing technology that remotely connects multiple devices (ranging across many fields and applications) over the Internet. The scalability of an IoT network mandates a reliable transport infrastructure. Traditional transport control protocol (TCP) control protocol is unsuitable for such domain, mainly due to energy and power consumption reasons. A lighter version of TCP, light weight IP (lwIP) provides a promising solution for current and projected future scalable IoT infrastructures. However, the original lwIP is just a simple mapping of the protocol, without insight into the IoT specific requirements. This paper examines the lwIP congestion control mechanism and addresses its shortcomings. In particular, a detailed examination is devoted to the various metrics such as retransmission time‐outs and its back‐off epochs, the congestion window behaviour and progress in the absence (and presence) of congestion. In particular, we propose a set of novel algorithms to address both the IoT constraints nature (light‐weight) as well as keeping up with scalability in IoT network size and performance. A detailed simulation study has been conducted to endorse the viability of our proposed set of algorithms for next‐generation IoT networks. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-24b633f7429f4fecace1820e720509552023-12-14T17:16:34ZengWileyIET Wireless Sensor Systems2043-63862043-63942023-12-0113624725510.1049/wss2.12072Congestion control in constrained Internet of Things networksLotfi Mhamdi0Hussam Abdul Khalek1School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Leeds Leeds West Yorkshire UKSchool of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Leeds Leeds West Yorkshire UKAbstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing technology that remotely connects multiple devices (ranging across many fields and applications) over the Internet. The scalability of an IoT network mandates a reliable transport infrastructure. Traditional transport control protocol (TCP) control protocol is unsuitable for such domain, mainly due to energy and power consumption reasons. A lighter version of TCP, light weight IP (lwIP) provides a promising solution for current and projected future scalable IoT infrastructures. However, the original lwIP is just a simple mapping of the protocol, without insight into the IoT specific requirements. This paper examines the lwIP congestion control mechanism and addresses its shortcomings. In particular, a detailed examination is devoted to the various metrics such as retransmission time‐outs and its back‐off epochs, the congestion window behaviour and progress in the absence (and presence) of congestion. In particular, we propose a set of novel algorithms to address both the IoT constraints nature (light‐weight) as well as keeping up with scalability in IoT network size and performance. A detailed simulation study has been conducted to endorse the viability of our proposed set of algorithms for next‐generation IoT networks.https://doi.org/10.1049/wss2.12072data communicationInternet of Thingsperformance evaluationprotocols |
| spellingShingle | Lotfi Mhamdi Hussam Abdul Khalek Congestion control in constrained Internet of Things networks IET Wireless Sensor Systems data communication Internet of Things performance evaluation protocols |
| title | Congestion control in constrained Internet of Things networks |
| title_full | Congestion control in constrained Internet of Things networks |
| title_fullStr | Congestion control in constrained Internet of Things networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Congestion control in constrained Internet of Things networks |
| title_short | Congestion control in constrained Internet of Things networks |
| title_sort | congestion control in constrained internet of things networks |
| topic | data communication Internet of Things performance evaluation protocols |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1049/wss2.12072 |
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