Path Length Optimization in Heterogeneous Network for Internet of Things
Abderrahim Zannou, Abdelhak Boulaalam, El Habib Nfaoui · 2020
The internet of things (IoT) is composed of a significant portion of constrained nodes, which are limited in terms of power energy, computation capacity, storage, and stability links. As a result, data collection and dissemination for IoT, especially in wireless sensor networks (WSN), requiring sufficient energy and a minimum number of hops from a source node to sink or to another node with a short period of time. To deal with these limitations, we propose a lightweight algorithm, where a cluster head (CH) is selected among the IoT devices of WSN to maintain a reliable network with efficient data transmission, and then the communication is performed among CHs to distribute the routing information, thus the transmission of data and requests lanced by nodes and users to respond of the given requirements. The simulation results show that our proposed algorithm increases the network lifetime and minimizes the number of hops with a short period of time.