Wake-up Receiver based routing protocol for indoor Wireless Sensor Networks

Wake-up Receiver (WuRx) is one of the most trivial and effective solutions for energy-constrained networks and a promising solution for monitoring various phenomena in the sense of the Internet of Things (IoT). The most important and challenging issue in WuRx-based networks is the time efficient routing process in an energy efficient manner. Effectively, awaking each node needed in the routing process recursively requires a lot of time which is not suitable for time-critical applications. In this paper, we propose a novel Wake-up Receiver based routing protocol called Time Efficient WuRx-based Routing (TEW) that ensures energy optimised and time efficient routing in indoor scenarios. In our proposed approach, the network is divided into clusters at which each Fog Node manages the routes for data transmission in an asymmetric manner. When the Sink requires data from a specific set of nodes of a particular cluster, the Sink transmits a DataPts request to the corresponding Fog Node. In addition, the Fog Node sends instructions by means of a single Request (REQ) packet informing the corresponding nodes how often they should act as relays before switching to the sleeping mode. The measurement results show that our proposed approach has higher energy efficiency and achieves significant performance improvements in data delivery delay.