Cross Layer Protocol for Bandwidth-hungry applications in IoT network

The Internet of Things is a networking framework which allows the physical objects to connect with existing networking infrastructure. Due to high heterogeneity of hardware and communication protocols present among the things, poses many areas of the layered architecture to be re-engineered. Existing cross layered architectures for Sensor/Ad hoc networks cannot be applied directly, as the network characteristics are different. Internet uses hierarchical architectures whereas the Sensor/Ad hoc networks use flat architectures. In our work, we propose a cross-layer architecture of data-link and network layers for delay sensitive applications, such that response time should be less. An agent-based architecture was looked in, to optimize the inter-relation among the things, to find an optimal path i.e., optimize the end-to-end delay. IoT network mainly follows star type of topology but sensor network is multihop. The results show that the methodology we started with will yield good results for delay sensitive applications.