Group Centric Networking: A New Approach for Wireless Multi-Hop Networking to Enable the Internet of Things.

Abstract : ABSTRACTIn this paper, we introduce a new networking architecturecalled Group Centric Networking (GCN) that is designed tosupport the large number of devices expected with the emergenceof the Internet of Things. GCN is designed to enablethese devices to operate collaboratively in a highly efficientand resilient fashion, while not sacrificing the users? abilityto communicate with one another. We do a full protocolimplementation of GCN in NS3, and verify GCN in emulationand on real hardware communicating over an RF channel.We show that GCN utilizes up to an order of magnitudefewer network resources than traditional wireless routingschemes, while providing superior connectivity and reliability.