A Sink-oriented Routing Protocol for Blue Light Link-based Mesh Network

The need to leverage "smart" mechanisms to route data among heterogeneous devices is a key aspect in modern scenarios and applications, especially those targeting the integration of existing systems in Internet of Things (IoT)-oriented environments. To this end, the exploitation of the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol, especially its advertisement channels, allows large amount of devices to interact, collect, and exploit data for future-proof applications. Therefore, the definition of routing protocols exploiting BLE advertisement channels and being able to target different classes of BLE nodes is useful for heterogeneous IoT scenarios.