Context Awareness in IoT Routing

Routing is a multifaceted process. Due to rapid changes in the current internet, it is possible to connect many smaller, bigger devices related to various applications to the internet. These devices are wired or wireless with sufficient or constrained resources. When these devices sense the data and transmit the data to the base station for analysis purpose, it becomes essential to understand the context of dynamic network for making the routing task easy. Here, context is considered as any information that can be used to understand the situation of the surrounding environment where we are running the application. Better routing mechanisms can be employed on the network when the application is aware with the context of the network. This generates the need of understanding the context of the network while routing the data. This paper mainly focuses on the context awareness and its need while routing the data and also discusses the context storage methods and context gathering phases.