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Concurrent Cross-Technology Communication Among Heterogeneous IoT Devices

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Zicheng Chi; Yan Li; Hongyu Sun; Yao Yao; Ting Zhu
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The exponentially increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the data generated by these devices introduces the spectrum crisis at the already crowded ISM ...Show More

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Abstract:

The exponentially increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the data generated by these devices introduces the spectrum crisis at the already crowded ISM 2.4-GHz band. To address this issue and enable more flexible and concurrent communications among IoT devices, we propose B2W2, a novel communication framework that enables N-way concurrent communication among Wi-Fi and Bluetooth low energy (BLE) devices. Specifically, we demonstrate that it is possible to enable the BLE to Wi-Fi cross-technology communication while supporting the concurrent BLE to BLE and Wi-Fi to Wi-Fi communications. We conducted extensive experiments under different real-world settings, and results show that its throughput is more than 85X times higher than that of the most recently reported cross-technology communication system, which only supports one-way communication (i.e., broadcasting) at any specific time.
Published in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking ( Volume: 27, Issue: 3, June 2019)
Page(s): 932 - 947
Date of Publication: 22 April 2019

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DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2019.2908754

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I. Introduction

According to the research by Gartner, the number of internet of things (IoT) devices will grow exponentially to reach 26 billion by 2020 [2]. A lot of IoT devices use WiFi or Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) that work at the industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) 2.4 GHz band. However, WiFi and BLE protocols are not compatible with each other at the physical layer. Therefore, a gateway (i.e., a bridge equipped with multiple radios) is normally used to connect these IoT devices. However, the gateway-based approach has two major issues: i) the additional cost to purchase the gateway hardware and ii) traffic overhead from a BLE device to a gateway, and then from the gateway to a WiFi device (shown in Figure 1b). When the number of IoT devices exponentially increases, the huge amount of data traffic generated by these IoT devices and the extra traffic introduced by gateways will significantly affect the wireless spectrum usage rate and eventually lead to spectrum crisis.

Gateway-based model vs. model. (a) Gateway-based model, which needs two steps to enable the communication between a BLE device and a WiFi device. (b) Simplified model, which can support 3-way concurrent communications: W2W, B2W, and B2B.

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