SIoT: A New Strategy to Improve the Network Lifetime with an Efficient Search Process

Abderrahim Zannou, Abdelhak Boulaalam and El Habib Nfaoui
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Abderrahim Zannou: LISAC Laboratory, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes 30050, Morocco
Abdelhak Boulaalam: LISA Laboratory, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes 30050, Morocco
El Habib Nfaoui: LISAC Laboratory, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes 30050, Morocco

Future Internet, 2020, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-23

Abstract: The Social Internet of Things (SIoT) means that every node can use a set of nodes that are considered as friends to search for a specific service. However, this is a slow process because each node is required to manage a high number of friends. Thus, the SIoT issue consists of how to select the right friends that improve the network navigability. The enhancement of the network navigability boosts the search for a service to be rapid but not guaranteed. Furthermore, sending requests from the shortest paths involves the rapid search, but the network lifetime can be reduced due to the number of requests that can be transmitted and processed by the nodes that have low power energy. This paper proposes a new approach that improves the network navigability, speeds up the search process, and increases the network lifetime. This approach aims at creating groups dynamically by nodes where each group has a master node, second, using a consensus algorithm between master nodes to agree with a specific capability, finally adopting a friendship selection method to create a social network. Thus, the friends will be sorted periodically for the objective of creating simultaneously a balance between the energy consumption and the rapid search process. Simulation results on the Brightkite location-based online social network dataset demonstrate that our proposal outperforms baseline methods in terms of some parameters of network navigability, path length to reach the providers, and network lifetime.

Keywords: IoT; SIoT; network navigability; network lifetime; service search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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