Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
India Conference (INDICON), 2012 Annual IEEE
Conference_Location :
Kochi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2270-6
DOI :
10.1109/INDCON.2012.6420658
