ABSTRACT
Design developers, researchers, and industry people are rushing for the Internet of Things (IoT), creating new types of designs, devices as well as systems. These products/things are communicated on the basis of Wi-Fi/Zigbee/RFID/Bluetooth or any other suitable existing or modified wireless technologies connecting them to wireless access points that in turn connect to the web and cloud-based intelligence. This chapter deals with the MAC and network layer issues and challenges for various radio network technologies if they are adopted in IoT and its cloud. Most of the standards and protocols adopted for IoT have their fixed physical and data link layers with minor required modifications, but there must be a common network layer based on IPv6 along with adaptation layer based on which the network layer strategies must be modified. This chapter deals with the centralized and distributed configuration-related MAC and network layer challenges and solutions for the network layer routing protocols and IP-based communication.
