Maximum Power Plus RSSI Based Routing Protocol for Bluetooth Low Energy Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract EN

This paper proposes a novel energy-conserving multihop routing protocol to maximize network lifetime and consume the battery in a distributed manner during route discovery in energy-constrained Bluetooth Low Energy ad hoc networks.

Furthermore, a flooding avoidance approach is adopted by the proposed scheme to minimize the number of route request packets flooded.

In addition, the proposed scheme maximizes network lifetime by using residual battery and RSSI as a route metric.

The simulation results confirm that our proposed scheme has a surpassing performance with regard to network lifetime, evenly distributed battery consumption, and route discovery latency compared with the traditional on-demand routing protocol.