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

Abstract

This record contains the research protocol and the classification database of a PRISMA 2020-compliant systematic literature review on adaptive Quality of Service (QoS) management in energy-constrained IoT networks (147 studies published 2018–2025: 128 research articles and 19 surveys, selected from 2,763 records retrieved from Scopus, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore and ScienceDirect). The protocol covers the five research questions, the eligibility criteria, the search string, the selection process, the data-extraction form, the inter-rater reliability procedure (three reviewers, Fleiss' κ = 0.939–0.966), the quality-assessment criteria and the analysis plan. The protocol was documented in May 2026, after the December 2025 search, and was retrospectively registered on OSF Registries on 9 May 2026 (DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/PXMZQ). Files: protocol (PDF), classification database of the 147 articles (CSV) and inter-rater classification data (CSV). The concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20097783 always resolves to the latest version.