# Application-Aware SDN-Based Iterative Reconfigurable Routing Protocol for Internet of Things (IoT)
## 5 Proposal of SADFIR
### Network Forwarding Phase (NFP) of SADFIR
In order to prove the performance of the proposed SADFIR, we provide extensive simulation level experiments in terms of network lifetime, network stability, energy consumption ratio, application-aware

Figure 12: Multi-type data received at BS over network operations in different numbers of network scales. and heterogeneity-aware. In all the experiments, the proposed SADFIR outperforms the state-of-the-art routing protocols with significant margins. Conceptualization, A.S.; Data curation, M.A. ([PERSON]); Formal analysis, A.S. and D.Y. ; Funding acquisition, G.C. ; Investigation, M.A. ([PERSON]); Methodology, A.S. and M.A. ([PERSON]); Resources, G.C. ; Software, M.A. ([PERSON]); Supervision, G.C. ; Validation, D.Y. ; Writing--original draft, A.S.; Writing--review & editing, D.Y. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. This research has been partially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant BK20191284, and National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61801222, and in part by National Key Research Development Program of China (2019 QY(Y)0206, 2016 QY01W0200), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China NSFC (U1736211). The authors declares no conflict of interest regarding publication of this research article. ## References

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