Internet of Things (IoT) gives a new dimension in the area of smart farming and agriculture domain. With the use of fog computing and WiFi-based long distance network in IoT, it is possible to connect the agriculture and farming bases situated in rural areas efficiently. To focus on the specific requirements, we propose a scalable network architecture for monitoring and controlling agriculture and farms in rural areas. Compared to the existing IoT based agriculture and farming solutions, the proposed solution reduces network latency up to a certain extent. In this, a cross-layer based channel access and routing solution for sensing and actuating is proposed. We analyze the network structure based on coverage range, throughput, and latency.

The emerging IEEE 802.11ah is a promising communication standard that supports a massive number of heterogeneous devices in the Internet of Things (IoT). It provides attractive features like improved scalability, low energy consumption, and coverage of large area. In this paper, we analyze the performance of IEEE 802.11ah, and compare it with a prominent alternative, the IEEE 802.15.4. The simulation results show that the new 802.11ah standard performs better than the 802.15.4 in terms of association time, throughput, delay, and coverage range

The IEEE 802.11ah, also known as WiFi HaLow, is a scalable solution for medium-range communication in Internet of Things (IoT). While provisioning support for the IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, IEEE 802.11ah leverages various innovative medium access control (MAC) layer concepts, such as restricted access window (RAW), hierarchical association identification (AID), traffic indication map (TIM) segmentation, etc. This article presents a survey on various MAC protocols for IEEE 802.11ah. While discussing the essential features of IEEE 802.11ah, this survey points out various issues and limitations of such MAC protocols. Although there are some surveys available for MAC protocols of IEEE 802.11ah, they do not include a large number of schemes that have been recently proposed to solve different standardization and implementation-based issues. This article individually surveys issues and challenges in the different problem domains of the IEEE 802.11ah MAC protocol and analyzes the recently proposed solutions. Moreover, this article identifies various factors for further improvement of these protocols. Compared to other relevant surveys, this article emphasizes the issues and challenges to enable researchers to easily identify the problem domain.

Internet of Things is a new paradigm which is tremendously gaining ground in the scenario of modern age. Wireless sensor network is a major constituent of it. Data aggregation schemes play a vital role in enhancing overall efficiency of such networks. The main goal of data aggregation scheme is to collect and aggregate data packets in an efficient manner in order to reduce power consumption, traffic congestion, and to increase network lifetime and data accuracy. In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of a few data aggregation techniques in Internet of Things with reference to the parameters like energy dissipation, network lifetime, throughput, latency and number of nodes alive.