Abstract-This paper investigates the sinks mobility in IPv6-based wireless sensors networks and specially in the new IETF proposed protocol RPL (Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy Networks). We also show that even the mobility of sinks is not an explicit design criteria, the use of mobile sinks improves the network lifetime. In this work, we propose a new distributed and weighted moving strategy for sinks in RPL. We compared our proposed mobility approach with different others strategies. The results show that our proposed mobility approach notably balances the network load which leads to a significant network lifetime gain in large scale network.
Another approach REF is proposed for sink mobility using RPL to improve the network lifetime by balancing network energy and avoiding hole creation problem.
Sinks Mobility Strategy in IPv6-Based WSNs for Network Lifetime Improvement
2011 4th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security
2011 4th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security
Computer Science