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Communication-Efficient Architecture for Low-Power IoT Things

  • Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
  • Abbr : JKIOTS
  • 2025, 11(6), 11
  • Publisher : The Korea Internet of Things Society
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science > Internet Information Processing
  • Received : October 11, 2025
  • Accepted : December 1, 2025
  • Published : December 31, 2025

Myung-Han Yu 1 Sangkyung Kim 2

1(주)봄커뮤니케이션
2국립강릉원주대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper proposes a novel IoT architecture that encompasses both IP-based and non-IP-based, low-power things, enabling them to form social relationships and provide efficient communication. The proposed architecture includes a novel application protocol, TinyAP-S, whose design features focus on improving communication efficiency across the IoT platform by eliminating handover procedures between gateways. Relationships between things and between things and users are simplified into three types: Ownership, Partial Ownership, and Guestship. Location- and recommendation-based navigation functions support efficient control and relationship formation. Performance evaluation results show that the TinyAP-S protocol significantly reduces the number of message transmissions through improved sleep mode operation, demonstrating high energy efficiency. In particular, comparisons with MQTT-SN, a low-power standard protocol, demonstrate that TinyAP-S achieves higher energy efficiency within the same energy budget. Furthermore, the proposed IoT platform demonstrates superior scalability in experiments assuming a high-density environment compared to existing SIoT platforms.

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