Mobility management in wireless sensor networks

Author

Berguiga, Abdelwahed ; Youssef, Habib

Author_Institution

ISITCom, Univ. of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

fYear

2012

fDate

25-28 March 2012

Firstpage

511

Lastpage

514

Abstract

Mobility in wireless sensor networks is an element which directly influences the network performance. Indeed, with an architecture based on the IP stack, a mobile node has to maintain connectivity with other sensors, also allowing connectivity to the Internet. Among IPv6 based protocols proposed for mobility management, we find Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6), Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) and Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6). In this paper, we present a performance comparison of MIPv6, HMIPv6 and PMIPv6 using an analytical approach. Location update cost and packet delivery cost are formulated based on the random-walk model. The impact of cell residence time and user population is investigated.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; mobility management (mobile radio); random processes; transport protocols; wireless sensor networks; HMIPv6; IP stack; IPv6 based protocol; Internet; PMIPv6; cell residence time; hierarchical mobile IPv6; location update cost; mobility management; packet delivery cost; proxy mobile IPv6; random-walk model; user population; wireless sensor network; Computer architecture; Manganese; Microprocessors; Mobile computing; Mobile radio mobility management; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), 2012 16th IEEE Mediterranean

Conference_Location

Yasmine Hammamet

ISSN

2158-8473

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0782-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.2012.6196484

Filename

6196484