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Driven by the high sensing resolution provided by advanced nano technologies, electromagnetic-based wireless nano sensor networks (EM-WNSNs) operating in the terahertz (THz) band is becoming an integral part of the Internet of Things (IoT). Data acquisition for EM-WNSNs faces two challenges: 1) the dynamic IoT backhaul bandwidth and 2) THz channel conditions that jointly impact resource utilization efficiency. Specifically, the mismatch between the demands of the EM-WNSNs and the available bandwidth of the backhaul link reduces the bandwidth efficiency of IoT backhaul or the energy efficiency of EM-WNSNs. To address the new constraints that emerge from the EM-WNSN, an on-demand probabilistic (OP) polling scheme is proposed for the backhaul tier of EM-WNSNs which is composed of nano sinks that aggregate and transport data from nano sensors to the IoT gateway. OP polling adjusts the packet aggregation process of nano sinks according to the up-to-date network conditions. From performance evaluation, OP polling achieves an 18% higher bandwidth efficiency compared to the previously proposed on-demand efficient polling and 69% less energy consumption compared to the greedy polling.
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