Joint Routing and Scheduling in Heterogeneous Wireless Network

The idea of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), heralds a future where most things used in the daily life of people are connected in possibly one network and share information among themselves. As a result, IoT presents a hope of revolutionizing the daily life of its potential users, but also presents a challenge for engineers, who need to ensure good connectivity between heterogeneous devices in such network. The IoT vision will deal with devices that are based on different/heterogeneous technologies. This thesis presents a novel technique for routing and scheduling in an heterogeneous network, based on a realistic physical layer model. The routing and scheduling techniques presented in this thesis, follows some existing routing and scheduling algorithms, with the performance of the scheme proved to be very efficient, based on the simulation results obtained.