The need to leverage "smart" mechanisms to route data among heterogeneous devices is a key aspect in modern scenarios and applications, especially those targeting the integration of existing systems in the Internet of Things (IoT)-oriented environments. To this end, the exploitation of the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol, especially its advertisement channels, allows a large amount of devices to interact, collect, and exploit data for future-proof applications. Therefore, the definition of routing protocols exploiting BLE advertisement channels and being able to target different classes of BLE nodes is useful for heterogeneous IoT scenarios.

Chapter Contents:

• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Related works
• 2.3 Sink-oriented routing protocol
• 2.3.1 Receive message (RMS) packet
• 2.4 Topology construction (downlink)
• 2.5 Data collection - request (downlink)
• 2.6 Data collection - response (uplink)
• 2.7 Use cases
• 2.7.1 Network topology reconstruction
• 2.7.2 Sensing of BLE devices in the neighborhood
• 2.8 Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• References

Inspec keywords: Internet of Things; routing protocols; Bluetooth

Other keywords: Things-oriented environments; route data; BLE advertisement channels; leverage smart mechanisms; sink-oriented; modern scenarios; heterogeneous devices; heterogeneous IoT scenarios; BLE nodes; Bluetooth Low Energy; future-proof applications; blue light link-based mesh network

Subjects: Communication network design, planning and routing; Radio links and equipment; Protocols; Computer communications