IP in wireless sensor networks Issues and lessons learnt

Author

Silva, J. Sa ; Ruivo, R. ; Camilo, T. ; Pereira, G. ; Boavida, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Coimbra Univ., Coimbra

fYear

2008

fDate

6-10 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

496

Lastpage

502

Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of IP in wireless sensor networks, comparing the use of IPv4 and IPv6. Although a considerable number of studies on wireless sensor networks exist, most of them are based on simulation only. This is not the case of the current paper. In order to validate and complement the simulation studies, this paper presents the construction, deployment and evaluation of a real testbed for the study of IP in Wireless Sensor Networks. The testbed is based on Contiki over embedded sensor boards nodes. The results show that the impact of IPv6 is negligible when compared with IPv4, and that IPv6 may even be beneficial due to its higher functionality and to the simpler composition of its headers.

Keywords

IP networks; wireless sensor networks; IP network; Internet protocol; embedded sensor board; wireless sensor network; Costs; Electronic mail; Energy efficiency; Hardware; Informatics; Protocols; Software performance; TCPIP; Testing; Wireless sensor networks; IP; IPv6; WSNs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems Software and Middleware and Workshops, 2008. COMSWARE 2008. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1796-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1797-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMSWA.2008.4554464

Filename

4554464