IoMANETs: Mobility architecture for wireless M2M networks

Machine-to-Machine Low Power Mobile devices and Mobile MESH networks will become ubiquitous in the future Internet of Things. Mobile Networks will need to interact with static networks to insure continuous connectivity with the core Internet. Maintaining device connectivity whilst mobile will provide increased Machine-to-Machine interaction. This will in turn provide greater fidelity to higher level decision making systems. Mobile Mesh networks could become fragmented during their operation, leading to an inter connectivity requirement between fragments. It is anticipated that critical infrastructure will also utilise M2M Internet of Things technology and require mobility architectures to be fault tolerant. This will require schemes that enable the continued operation of a system whilst sections are asleep or in a failed state due to power exhaustion or attack. This paper introduces the Indirection Overlay for MANETs (IoMANETs) mobility framework. IoMANETs initial design provides a fault tolerant, scalable solution to the Internet of Things mobility problem.