Protocol for: Adaptive Quality of Service Management in Energy-Constrained IoT Networks — A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

This document presents the research protocol for a PRISMA 2020-compliant systematic literature review on adaptive Quality of Service (QoS) management in energy-constrained IoT networks. The protocol covers: (1) five research questions addressing network types, QoS parameters, algorithmic approaches, adaptation mechanisms, and evaluation methods; (2) the search strategy across Scopus, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore, and ScienceDirect for the period 2018–2025; (3) inclusion and exclusion criteria; (4) the four-stage PRISMA study selection process; (5) data extraction procedures; and (6) a multi-criteria quality assessment framework. The review analyzes 147 peer-reviewed articles classified into six algorithmic categories across ten IoT network architectures. The accompanying Excel files contain the complete article classification database (Liste de 147 articles.xlsx) and the inter-rater reliability calculations using Fleiss' Kappa with three independent reviewers (Kappa_3_Authors.xlsx).Amendment (v2, May 2026): Two references updated in the article corpus. Reference [59] (Dilek et al., duplicate of [51]) replaced by: Sahoo, S., Sahoo, S.P., & Kabat, M.R. (2024). A pragmatic review of QoS optimisations in IoT driven networks. Wireless Personal Communications, 137, 2287-2323. DOI: 10.1007/s11277-024-11412-9. Reference [87] (Premalatha et al., paywall access) replaced by: Wang, D. et al. (2024). A comprehensive review on internet of things task offloading in multi-access edge computing. Heliyon, 10(9), e29916. DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e29916. No impact on methodology, search strategy, or results. Corpus size unchanged (147 articles).