Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 6156: treNch: Ultra-Low Power Wireless Communication Protocol for IoT and Energy Harvesting

Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 6156: treNch: Ultra-Low Power Wireless Communication Protocol for IoT and Energy Harvesting Sensors doi: 10.3390/s20216156 Authors: Fernando Moreno-Cruz Víctor Toral-López Antonio Escobar-Molero Víctor U. Ruíz Almudena Rivadeneyra Diego P. Morales Although the number of Internet of Things devices increases every year, efforts to decrease hardware energy demands and to improve efficiencies of the energy-harvesting stages have reached an ultra-low power level. However, no current standard of wireless communication protocol (WCP) can fully address those scenarios. Our focus in this paper is to introduce treNch, a novel WCP implementing the cross-layer principle to use the power input for adapting its operation in a dynamic manner that goes from pure best-effort to nearly real time. Together with the energy-management algorithm, it operates with asynchronous transmissions, synchronous and optional receptions, short frame sizes and a light architecture that gives control to the nodes. These features make treNch an optimal option for wireless sensor networks with ultra-low power demands and severe energy fluctuations. We demonstrate through a comparison with different modes of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) a decrease of the power consumption in 1 to 2 orders of magnitude for different scenarios at equal quality of service. Moreover, we propose some security optimizations, such as shorter over-the-air counters, to reduce the packet overhead...
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