μMobile IPv6 in wireless sensor networks

Abstract

In the new era of Internet of Things, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can provide a new way of communication between the Virtual and the Real World. However, mobility has become more and more important in flat WSNs allowing them to expand to new concepts and extending their applicability. Meanwhile, it is also crucial to control losses and support quality of service in these mobile environments. In fact, this is very important for monitoring people's health conditions in hospitals, in military scenarios and in dangerous industrial environments. However, so that an end-user application can take advantage of a mobility scenario, a low level mobile protocol should be implemented in a transparent way for applications. This article presents the implementation details and some evaluation studies of two mobility models for WSNs: one based on the well-known MIPv6 and another one based on our previous work in draft-silva-6lowpan-mipv6.