6LowPan—Performance Analysis on Low Power Networks

Abstract

The modern world had been dominant to the automation applications. We can see that the smart applications are being leveraged significantly. The deployment of Smart watch, Smart Cars, Smart Homes are the common examples that can be referred to automation. The core of the automation technology lies in the domain of Wireless Sensor Networks referred as WSN and the Internet of Things, i.e., IoT. The prominent part or the concept in the technology is the sensors. The common name for this sensors are nodes in common network terms. The major consideration in any of the sensor networks or the IoT environment is the energy availability at each nodes. Therefore the minimal energy consumption by the nodes of the network or the energy consumption factors are highly observed. The nodes are also supposed to perform immediate regrouping of the network whenever the nodes die. In this paper, the behaviour of the low power protocol called 6LowPan abbreviated as IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks is analysed under various topological scenarios. Cooja Contiki simulator is the tool used in for the simulation purposes of the 6LowPan.