Data link and network layer protocol design for wireless Internet of things (IoT), Machine to Machine (M2M) and vehicular communications

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The Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved from Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to connect smart devices to each other. IoT is the next big leap in information and communication technology and is estimated to reach a 1.7 trillion dollar (US) market size with over 50 billion IoT devices by the year 2020. IoT is likely to have an astonishing impact in areas such as energy management, transportation, industrial control, and healthcare; all of which are essential to have a sustainable development and utilization of the Earth's scarce resources.******IoT is currently still in its early stages for delivering the promised impact. The challenges that remain to be resolved are in real-time and reliable communications, quality of service provisions, and interoperability among different communication technologies. For example, it is extremely difficult to achieve ubiquitous coverage with a single network technology. Therefore, interoperability among different architectures and technologies must be provided. IoT is expected to operate reliably for a number of years with batteries, which require balanced energy consumption. The protocol stacks of heterogeneous IoT networks must be able to translate the requirements between different standards to reach desirable objectives.******Vehicular Networks (VNs) are essential in providing active safety and emergency applications to reduce and possibly eliminate vehicle accidents. That is why automotive and communication industries are cooperating together to develop Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communication technologies. IEEE 802.11p also known as Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) standard for safety messaging was a result of this cooperation. DSRC allows message exchanges among vehicles to inform their vital mobility information such as heading, location, and speed for collision avoidance and emergency applications. However, V2V and V2I communications are still not reliable since a large packet generation rate in a relatively busy network can cause congestion, interference and processing load. There is also no provision in DSRC for multi-hop networking, where the utilization and effectiveness of the system will be significantly enhanced if V2V allows networking to extend the range of the information dissemination. Content based networking is important and will be explored for the V2V communications. ******Developing a research tool (middleware) to increase pace of the research in IoT is extremely important. This tool will bridge the gap between high level algorithm development environment and hardware platforms and be developed as part of this proposed research in order to verify the completeness of IoT protocols.******Provided funding will enable to solve above mentioned problems related to IoT and VNs, contribute to Canada's competitiveness by developing intellectual property and contributing HQP training.**