SDCN: Sensory Data-Centric Networking for Building the Sensing Layer of IoT

• Published in: ACM transactions on sensor networks 2020-11, Vol.17 (1), p.1-25
• Main Authors: Liu, Liang, Chen, Bo, Ma, Huadong
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1550-4859; 1550-4867
• DOI: 10.1145/3402452

Building an open global sensing layer is critical for the Internet of Things (IoT). In this article, we present a Sensory Data-Centric Networking (SDCN) architecture for inter-networking two main networked sensing systems in IoT—wireless sensor networks and mobile sensing networks. Specifically, the proposed SDCN is a systematic solution including NDNs for sensor nodes in the Zigbee network, NDNm for mobilephones in the Wi-Fi network, and NDNg for gateways. Considering the sensing requirement of IoT, we first design a novel Spatio-Temporal 16 Tree (ST16T) naming scheme associated with the scope-matching method. Based on the naming scheme, we further propose the related discovery methods, network switching mechanism, forwarding, and routing strategies according to the features of large-scale sensing and resource-constrained environment. A proof-of-concept prototype is implemented and further is deployed on our campus (BUPT) and the Great Wall (Shaanxi, China) for Environment Monitoring Project. Several experiments are conducted on the deployed platform. The experimental results show that SDCN outperforms the state-of-the-arts and gains a great performance improvement in terms of energy consumption, data collection efficiency, memory footprint, and time delay.