Addressing and flood-based communications for the software-defined metamaterial paradigm

摘要

The recently proposed Software-Defined Metamaterial (SDM) paradigm is envisioned to be one of themost beneficiaries of the Internet of NanoThings (IoNT). Given the unprecedented applications in thefields of smart materials and smart textiles supported by SDMs. However, the key-enabler of theseapplications is still in infancy, which is the design of efficient data communication schemes for denseand resource-constrained nanonetworks. To this end, the present study proposes three communicationschemes that consider the three modes of communication in SDM applications (i.e., peer-to-peer,upward and downward communications). The proposed schemes efficiently exploit the well-definedpattern formed by the self-classified forwarders based on their packet reception statistics to route datain arc and line segment paths. To further enhance the energy efficiency, the proposed schemes jointlyapply dynamic adjusted counter-based and probabilistic flooding techniques to achieve a reasonabledegree of path multiplicity. The results of extensive simulations over various performance scenariosusing nano-sim tool on NS-3 show the advantages of the proposed schemes over related works interms of communication reliability, energy consumption and communication latency.