MANER: Managed Data Dissemination Scheme for LoRa IoT Enabled Wildlife Monitoring System (WMS)

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce dual radio based IoT network architecture for wildlife monitoring system (WMS). This solution will facilitate an IoT devices to be deployed for sustainable wildlife monitoring applications. In addition we present MANER, a managed data dissemination scheme for WMS. In MANER, data forwarding is optimized with a replication function to control and prioritize data dissemination. In WMS scenario wild animals show a sparsely con- specific mobility, which often results in a sporadic wireless link among nodes. Unlike existing opportunistic algorithms, MANER optimally makes forwarding decisions by leveraging locally available information. Hence, the proposed algorithm adopts to dynamic network topology due to the inherent intermittent connectivity among mobile herd of animals. We evaluated the performance of MANER by considering standard and real-life mobility models. Experimental results indicated that MANER decreases the average latency by up-to 65\%, when compared to benchmark opportunistic algorithms. In addition MANER readily increased the network delivery ratio for various data traffic rates.