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The enhancement of the network navigability boosts the search for a service to be rapid but not guaranteed. Furthermore, sending requests from the shortest paths involves the rapid search, but the network lifetime can be reduced due to the number of requests that can be transmitted and processed by the nodes that have low power energy. This paper proposes a new approach that improves the network navigability, speeds up the search process, and increases the network lifetime. This approach aims at creating groups dynamically by nodes where each group has a master node, second, using a consensus algorithm between master nodes to agree with a specific capability, finally adopting a friendship selection method to create a social network. Thus, the friends will be sorted periodically for the objective of creating simultaneously a balance between the energy consumption and the rapid search process. Simulation results on the Brightkite location-based online social network dataset demonstrate that our proposal outperforms baseline methods in terms of some parameters of network navigability, path length to reach the providers, and network lifetime.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/fi13010004","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,29]],"date-time":"2020-12-29T10:04:46Z","timestamp":1609236286000},"page":"4","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["SIoT: A New Strategy to Improve the Network Lifetime with an Efficient Search Process"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9721-0343","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Abderrahim","family":"Zannou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"LISAC Laboratory, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes 30050, Morocco"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6936-0915","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Abdelhak","family":"Boulaalam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LISA Laboratory, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes 30050, Morocco"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5816-0897","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"El Habib","family":"Nfaoui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LISAC Laboratory, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes 30050, Morocco"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"9","article-title":"Internet of things strategic research roadmap","volume":"1","author":"Guillemin","year":"2011","journal-title":"Clust Eur. 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