Evaluating Energy Efficiency and Security for Internet of Things: A Systematic Review

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) contains devices to collect and transmit information that should not be captured by third parties. Although devices have internet connectivity, some devices have battery limited energy. Therefore, it is important the conducting of evaluations to investigate, compare and propose security mechanisms with energy-efficient. However, there is a very low number of research using practical evaluations with real devices, as measurement approach takes a long time to perform the experiments. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyze, categorize analytically and statistically the methodologies which have been presented in the area of IoT based on the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method, in order to extract features of the research protocols (definition of a set of equipment, topology, traffic, parameters, metrics and other variables) to be used in new research that addresses the concepts of security, energy and IoT. The weaknesses and highlighting of each study is discussed as well as presenting some hints for addressing future research with lower execution times of experiments, as it will be possible to reuse the results of measurements already published for the same parameter and metrics.