Opportunistic Routing towards Mobile Sink Nodes in Bluetooth Mesh Networks

Marcelo Paulon J. V., Bruno Olivieri de Souza, Markus Endler

2021

Abstract

This work evaluates sporadic data collection on a Bluetooth Mesh network, using the OMNET++ INET simulator. The data collector is a roaming sink node, which could be a smartphone or other portable device, carried by a pedestrian, a biker, an animal, or a drone. The sink node could connect to a mesh network in hard-to-reach areas that do not have internet access and collect sensor data. After implementing Bluetooth Mesh relay extensions, Low Power, and Friend features in OMNET++, we were able to propose and evaluate algorithms for mobility-aware, adaptive, routing of sensor data towards the sink node. While the long-term goal for this research is to implement the proposed algorithms on ESP32-based SoCs to monitor tree health, so far, the preliminary simulated results already reveal some interesting findings. One variation of a proposed routing algorithm achieved an 82.00% increase in unique data delivered to the sink node compared to Bluetooth Mesh’s default routing algorithm. In that case, there was a 5.45% decrease in energy consumption for the same scenario. Also, the delivery rate increased by 58.22%.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Paulon J. V. M., Olivieri de Souza B. and Endler M. (2021). Opportunistic Routing towards Mobile Sink Nodes in Bluetooth Mesh Networks. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, ISBN 978-989-758-529-6, pages 67-75. DOI: 10.5220/0010557000670075

in Bibtex Style

@conference{winsys21,
author={Marcelo Paulon J. V. and Bruno Olivieri de Souza and Markus Endler},
title={Opportunistic Routing towards Mobile Sink Nodes in Bluetooth Mesh Networks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS,},
year={2021},
pages={67-75},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010557000670075},
isbn={978-989-758-529-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS,
TI - Opportunistic Routing towards Mobile Sink Nodes in Bluetooth Mesh Networks
SN - 978-989-758-529-6
AU - Paulon J. V. M.
AU - Olivieri de Souza B.
AU - Endler M.
PY - 2021
SP - 67
EP - 75
DO - 10.5220/0010557000670075