Citation

Zguira Y, Rivano H, Meddeb A. Sensors (Basel) 2018; 18(9): s18092819.

Affiliation

NOCCS Laboratory, National Engineering School, ENISO, University of Sousse, Sousse 4054, Tunisia. Aref.Meddeb@infcom.rnu.tn.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/s18092819

PMID

30150525

Abstract

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are an essential part of the global world. They play a substantial role for facing many issues such as traffic jams, high accident rates, unhealthy lifestyles, air pollution, etc. Public bike sharing system is one part of ITS and can be used to collect data from mobiles devices. In this paper, we propose an efficient, "Internet of Bikes", IoB-DTN routing protocol based on data aggregation which applies the Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) paradigm to Internet of Things (IoT) applications running data collection on urban bike sharing system based sensor network. We propose and evaluate three variants of IoB-DTN: IoB based on spatial aggregation (IoB-SA), IoB based on temporal aggregation (IoB-TA) and IoB based on spatiotemporal aggregation (IoB-STA). The simulation results show that the three variants offer the best performances regarding several metrics, comparing to IoB-DTN without aggregation and the low-power long-range technology, LoRa type. In an urban application, the choice of the type of which variant of IoB should be used depends on the sensed values.

Language: en

Keywords

LoRa/LoRaWAN; data aggregation; data collection; delay tolerant networks; internet of bikes; internet of things; low-power long-range technology; smart cities; wireless sensor networks