A Sustainable Data Dissemination Approach by Utilizing the Internet of Moving Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) has shown remarkable competence in uniting devices and internet connectivity to make modern life’s applications a reality. These networked devices, empowered with computing and communications, usually exhibit an exponential increment in network traffic to enhance the end-user quality of experience (QoE). The exponential increase in network traffic makes the traditional communication system congested. To reduce the burden of network traffic, the data could be offloaded to device-to-device (D2D)-based infrastructure. This offloading scheme results in an innovative, eco-friendly, and sustainable data dissemination approach known as social networking and is mostly done in opportunistic ways. In this paper, we propose a scheme to explore the performance of the existing routing protocols with the movements and spatial closeness relations among ‘things’, termed as Internet of Moving Things (IoMT). The spatial closeness known as traces will help to make optimal data offloading decisions while considering the mobility traces of humans in the social network. The proposed mechanism is designed to optimally utilize moving physical objects to be involved as a third party in the data communication process between the sources and the destinations rather than using the traditional infrastructure while considering the quality of service (QoS). The simulation results have corroborated the proposed scheme and showed the remarkable performance of routing algorithms while incorporating mobility traces.