DUROCOM: energy efficient dual radio communication protocol for battery constrained IoT networks

Emerging battery-constrained IoT devices face significant communication challenges due to frequent power interruptions and limited time synchronization. Traditional low-power wireless protocols are limited by intermittent energy availability and lack of precise timing. While the IoT offers many advantages, it also poses significant challenges including energy constraints, which may lead to a limited lifespan of IoT devices. To overcome these issues, a novel DUal RadiO COMmunication (DUROCOM) protocol has been proposed. It provides dependable communication between a receiver and several devices by synchronizing them using two low-power wake-up radios. The Reptile Search Algorithm is used for protocol optimization to adjust the data rate. The efficacy of the framework is evaluated using metrics namely throughput, energy consumption, power control efficiency, and latency. The DUROCOM technique improves the energy efficiency by 7.91%, 43.57%, and 66.44% and Network Lifetime by 4.37%, 10.88%, and 18.51% better than the existing Quantum-SSA-Markov Model, HDS, and BaMbI approaches.