Implementation and evaluation of an improved header compression for 6LoWPAN

Author

Sreejesh, V.K. ; Kumar, G. Sathish

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Cochin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kochi, India

fYear

2012

fDate

7-9 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

439

Lastpage

443

Abstract

Extending IPv6 to IEEE 802.15.4-based Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks requires efficient header compression mechanisms to adapt to their limited bandwidth, memory and energy constraints. This paper presents an experimental evaluation of an improved header compression scheme which provides better compression of IPv6 multicast addresses and UDP port numbers compared to existing mechanisms. This scheme outperforms the existing compression mechanism in terms of data throughput of the network and energy consumption of nodes. It enhances throughput by up to 8% and reduces transmission energy of nodes by about 5%.

Keywords

Zigbee; energy consumption; multicast protocols; personal area networks; transport protocols; 6LoWPAN; IEEE 802.15.4-based low power wireless personal area networks; IPv6 multicast address; UDP port number; data throughput; energy constraint; energy consumption; header compression mechanism; memory constraint; Context; Encoding; IEEE 802.15 Standards; IP networks; Ports (Computers); Protocols; Throughput; 6LoWPAN; Header Compression; IPv6; Multicast Address; UDP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

India Conference (INDICON), 2012 Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Kochi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2270-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDCON.2012.6420658

Filename

6420658