A methodology to enable self-organization in the internet of things based on negotiation mechanism

Internet of things (IoT) promotes the integration and communication between physical objects, including digital objects on the IoT can automate and streamline many tasks. Current network solutions are not designed to connect a large number of co-located devices with different characteristics and network requirements. To cope with increasingly large and heterogeneous networks, this paper presents a “goal-driven” networking approach that optimizes the network performance by taking the network goals of all individual devices into account. A simple algorithm is described to realize the approach. Through an experimental simulation with two networks of resource-constrained embedded devices, it is shown that these simple algorithms can improve the performance of the network.