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An inter-PAN mobility support scheme for IP-based wireless sensor networks and its applications

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Mobility support for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) can significantly extend the use of WSN in many fields, such as industrial control, healthcare and smart home. And high-efficiency mobility support schemes are essential for WSN because this is a typical energy constrained network. This paper proposes a LoW cost inter-PAN Mobility Support Scheme (LoWMS) for IPv6 based WSN, which follows the network based idea. The scheme aims at reducing signaling cost when sensor nodes move between two Personal Area Networks. In order to realize it, the handoff related control messages are designed to transmit in link layer, and resolution for ping-pong handoff is also given. Simulation results show the novel scheme efficiently reduces the amount of handoff messages, which is benefit for energy saving of WSN. At the end of the paper, we illustrate two possible application scenarios which could be beneficial from LoWMS, one is healthcare system, and another is logistics and storage.

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Abbreviations

WSN:

Wireless sensor networks

LoWMS:

LoW cost inter-PAN mobility support scheme

PANs:

Personal area networks

IETF:

Internet engineering task force

6LoWPAN:

IPv6 over low power wireless personal area network

MIP:

Mobile IP

MIPv6:

Mobility support in IPv6

HoA:

Home-of address

CoA:

Care-of address

FA:

Foreign agent

HMIPv6:

Hierarchical mobile IPv6

MAP:

Mobility anchor point

RCoA:

Regional CoA

LCoA:

Local care-of address

FMIPv6:

Fast mobile IPv6

PMIPv6:

Proxy mobile IPv6

LMA:

Local mobility anchor

MAG:

Mobile access gateway

SPMIPv6:

Sensor proxy mobile IPv6

GW:

Gateway

CMN:

Cluster tree member node

MC:

Mobile cluster

CHN:

Cluster head node

FFD:

Full function devices

RFD:

Reduced function devices

PTT:

Previous node tunnel table

NTT:

Next node tunnel table

FC:

Frame control

SN:

Serial number

DA:

Destination address

SA:

Source address

FCS:

Frame check sequence

C:

Control

BAN:

Body area network

RFID:

Radio frequency identification devices

AoA:

Angle of arrival

TDoA:

Time difference of arrival

RSS:

Received signal strength

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This work is supported by Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 4112044) and Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (Grant No. 20120009110009).

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    Xiaopu Shang, Runtong Zhang & Fuzhi Chu

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Shang, X., Zhang, R. & Chu, F. An inter-PAN mobility support scheme for IP-based wireless sensor networks and its applications. Inf Technol Manag 14, 183–192 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10799-013-0155-z

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