Novel IoT Applications Enabled by TCNet: Trellis Coded Network

This work presents new results in routing in Wireless Sensor Networks, an important Infrastructure for the Internet of Things architecture, using the new concept of Trellis Coded Network TCNet. The TCNet is based on the concept of convolutional codes and trellis decoder, that allow routing of data collected by randomly distributed micro sensors in ad hoc networks scenarios. This model uses Mealy Machines or low complexity Finite State Machines network nodes (“XOR” gates and shift registers), eliminating the use of any routing tables enabling the implementation of important IoT applications as Sensor Network Virtualization and in scenarios where clusters of nodes allow covering large areas of interest where the sensors are distributed. The application of TCNet algorithm concepts in cases as VSNs and clustering is facilitated due to the flexibility of TCNet to implement route management, becoming a tool to be adopted by Sensor Infrastructure Providers aiming to deploy, for example, QoS-aware end-to-end services.