Data Aggregation In Internet Of Things Research Articles

A Subspace Approach to Sparse-Sampling-Based Multi-Attribute Data Aggregation in IoT

The emergence of the heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) has realized the demand for multi-attribute data collection in response to the increasing demand for information in diverse applications. Sparse sampling has been used to reduce network energy consumption in order to extend the life of energy-constrained networks. Real-time multi-attribute data aggregation under the sparse sensing framework has become a research focus. Therefore, we proposed a sparse-sampling-based IoT data aggregation approach to reduce network energy consumption and enable real-time multi-attribute reconstruction. For data collection, a sparse sampling data collection approach is proposed that can successfully collect and transmit the multi-attribute data to the sink even while certain IoT sensor nodes are in the sleep mode. For data reconstruction, a real-time multi-attribute data reconstruction method based on subspace is proposed. The proposed method arranges multi-attribute data in a tensor form in order to further utilize the correlation of multi-attribute data. Subspaces representing the spatial distributions of the multi-attribute data can be obtained from the previously reconstructed data. Incorporating total variation constraint, the proposed method reconstructs the current time slot multi-attribute data with high precision in real time. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in real-time multi-attribute data reconstruction.

Load Balancing in RPL to Avoid Hotspot Problem for Improving Data Aggregation in IoT

Data aggregation plays a vital role in the Internet of Things (IoT), and it aggregates the collected sensor data from devices to suppress redundant data transmissions. Many-to-one traffic pattern in the IoT induces hotspot problem and inefficient data aggregation. The Routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks (RPL) in the network layer impacts the hotspot problem due to the frequent usage of forwarding nodes and load imbalance. The processes of network layer protocol, such as trickle algorithm and Objective Functions (OF) for Destination Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (DODAG) construction, need more attention to avoid hotspot for efficient data aggregation. This work proposes a Load Balanced RPL (LoB-RPL) protocol to avoid hotspot creation using a composite metric based parent selection, DODAG construction, and local topology adaptive decision on trickle parameters. The LoBRPL improves the Minimum Hop with Hysteresis Objective Function(MRHOF) using the composite metric based parent selection and tunes the parameters of the Trickle algorithm. It ensures efficient maintenance of DODAG structure, hotspot avoidance, and unnecessary DIO transmissions. Beyond the advantages of composite metric based parent selection, consideration of dynamic parameters may induce frequent parent switching in RPL. To avoid frequent changes in the DODAG structure, the LoB-RPL optimally decides the parent switching threshold. Thus, the proposed work ensures a load-balanced and an energy-efficient RPL routing as well as data aggregation in the IoT environment. The LoB-RPL delivers outperforming results compared to the base RPL under various inter-packet interval time over 50 node topologies.

Secure and Efficient Data Aggregation for IoT Monitoring Systems

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) as a promising paradigm has contributed enormously to modern technology design. The wireless body sensor network (WBSN) technology is an application of IoT in healthcare, whereas data security and privacy impediments have raised some concerns. The collected data via IoT wireless body sensors is vulnerable to a variety of internal and external attacks. One solution is to encrypt or sign the collected data to provide confidentiality and integrity, but the computational complexity hinders the application in the real IoT-based healthcare devices. Although there have been some attempts to provide secure and efficient IoT schemes, there is a lack of achieving secure data analysis in modern healthcare. The aggregated data statistics about the patient's medical status is useful to doctors and healthcare providers. However, the dynamic data continually updating over time is challenging. In this article, we present an efficient and provably secure scheme, which is the first step toward secure data analysis for handling the data collection and analysis for IoT wireless body sensors. The main contribution of our work is a novel cryptographic accumulator based on our novel authenticated additive homomorphic encryption which can collect and accumulate data from IoT wireless wearable devices. These encrypted data can be used for analysis in an encrypted form so that the information is not revealed. To validate security and efficiency, we present security analysis and performance evaluations of our proposed scheme for IoT wireless body sensors.

Wirelessly Powered Data Aggregation for IoT via Over-the-Air Function Computation: Beamforming and Power Control

As a revolution in networking, the Internet of Things (IoT) aims at automating the operations of our societies by connecting and leveraging an enormous number of distributed devices (e.g., sensors and actuators). One design challenge is efficient wireless data aggregation (WDA) over the dense IoT devices. This can enable a series of the IoT applications ranging from latency-sensitive high-mobility sensing to data-intensive distributed machine learning. Over-the-air (function) computation (AirComp) has emerged to be a promising solution that merges computing and communication by exploiting analog-wave addition in the air. Another IoT design challenge is battery recharging for dense sensors which can be tackled by wireless power transfer (WPT). The coexisting of AirComp and WPT in the IoT system calls for their integration to enhance the performance and efficiency of WDA. This motivates the current work on developing the wirelessly powered AirComp (WP-AirComp) framework by jointly optimizing wireless power control, energy and (data) aggregation beamforming to minimize the AirComp error. To derive a practical solution, we recast the non-convex joint optimization problem into the equivalent outer and inner sub-problems for (inner) wireless power control and energy beamforming, and (outer) the efficient aggregation beamforming, respectively. The former is solved in closed form while the latter is efficiently solved using the semidefinite relaxation technique. The results reveal that the optimal energy beams point to the dominant Eigen-directions of the WPT channels, and the optimal power allocation tends to equalize the close-loop (down-link WPT and up-link AirComp) effective channels of different sensors. The simulation demonstrates that the controlling WPT provides additional design dimensions for substantially reducing the AirComp error.

CG-E2S2: Consistency-guaranteed and energy-efficient sleep scheduling algorithm with data aggregation for IoT

In data acquisition (DAQ)-based services of Internet of things (IoT), IoT devices sense and transmit data to the application server through IoT gateway (GW). Due to the energy limitation of IoT devices, it is important to increase their energy efficiency. Further, when data from a very large number of IoT devices is individually transmitted, the data traffic volume can be significant. To resolve these issues, IoT devices and IoT GW can use sleep mode and data aggregation, respectively. However, when the IoT devices are in sleep mode for a long time and/or data are aggregated in IoT GW for a long time without any transmissions, data can become inconsistent. In this paper, we propose a consistency-guaranteed and energy efficient sleep scheduling algorithm (CG-E2S2) with data aggregation. In CG-E2S2, the optimal sleep duration of IoT devices and aggregation duration in IoT GW are jointly determined by means of a Markov decision process (MDP) with the consideration of energy efficiency of IoT devices, data traffic in networks, and data consistency. The evaluation results demonstrate that CG-E2S2 with the optimal policy outperforms the comparison schemes in terms of energy efficiency, data traffic volume, and data consistency.