Design and Construction of Wireless Sensor Network Gateway with IPv4/IPv6 Support

Author

Campos, Bruno Da Silva ; Rodrigues, Joel J P C ; Mendes, Lucas D P ; Nakamura, Eduardo F. ; Figueiredo, Carlos Maurício S

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Fed. Univ. of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

5-9 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

6LoWPAN opens a great opportunity for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to be operated from the Internet. However, 6LoWPAN requires a gateway in order to make the use of IPv6 feasible inside the WSN. In this paper, a gateway is designed and constructed to interconnect 6LoWPAN wireless sensor networks with IPv6 clients, enabling them to receive sensor nodes readings or send commands to the 6LoWPAN WSN at anytime through direct communication with the sensor nodes. Furthermore, this solution allows IPv4 clients to exchange information with the WSN through a bridge architecture implemented at the gateway. The experimental results show that the communication between 6LoWPAN WSN and IPv6/IPv4 clients is successful.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; client-server systems; internetworking; personal area networks; wireless sensor networks; 6LoWPAN WSN; IPv4 client; IPv6 over low-power personal area networks; Internet; wireless sensor network gateway; Base stations; Internet; Logic gates; Monitoring; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (ICC), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

ISSN

1550-3607

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-232-5

Electronic_ISBN

1550-3607

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/icc.2011.5962848

Filename

5962848