Path recovery mechanism in 6LoWPAN routing

The feature of 6LoWPAN is the capability of the dynamic assignment of 16-bit short addresses. Hierarchical routing (HiLow) algorithm that uses dynamically assigned 16-bit unique short address as its interface identifier has an advantage of memory saving. The 16-bit unique short address is assigned t...

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Main Authors: Ee, Gee Keng, Ng, Chee Kyun, Noordin, Nor Kamariah, Mohd Ali, Borhanuddin
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Published: IEEE 2010
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author Ee, Gee Keng
Ng, Chee Kyun
Noordin, Nor Kamariah
Mohd Ali, Borhanuddin
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Ng, Chee Kyun
Noordin, Nor Kamariah
Mohd Ali, Borhanuddin
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description The feature of 6LoWPAN is the capability of the dynamic assignment of 16-bit short addresses. Hierarchical routing (HiLow) algorithm that uses dynamically assigned 16-bit unique short address as its interface identifier has an advantage of memory saving. The 16-bit unique short address is assigned to a 6LoWPAN device during an association operation with a neighbor node which is also called parent node in HiLow. Besides reducing the overhead of maintaining routing table, HiLow also supports for larger scalability. However, previous research did not deal with the path recovery when sensor nodes in HiLow are failed. The node failure may be due to the battery lifetime of the 6LoWPAN device. This kind of failure will cause the expiration of the association event and make the previously assigned 16-bit short address of the child node from the failure parent node become invalid within PAN. In this paper, a new path recovery mechanism so-called step parent node (SPN) algorithm is proposed to conventional HiLow to reassign the valid 16-bit short addresses for the child nodes of the failure parent node and provide the path robustness. The child nodes of the failure parent node will broadcast a step parent node request message (spn_request) to the neighbor nodes. The neighbor node whose child nodes do not exceed the maximum child value will act as a step parent node of the new child nodes. It enhances the reliability of conventional hierarchical routing mechanism.
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spelling upm-685652019-06-10T02:43:13Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/68565/ Path recovery mechanism in 6LoWPAN routing Ee, Gee Keng Ng, Chee Kyun Noordin, Nor Kamariah Mohd Ali, Borhanuddin The feature of 6LoWPAN is the capability of the dynamic assignment of 16-bit short addresses. Hierarchical routing (HiLow) algorithm that uses dynamically assigned 16-bit unique short address as its interface identifier has an advantage of memory saving. The 16-bit unique short address is assigned to a 6LoWPAN device during an association operation with a neighbor node which is also called parent node in HiLow. Besides reducing the overhead of maintaining routing table, HiLow also supports for larger scalability. However, previous research did not deal with the path recovery when sensor nodes in HiLow are failed. The node failure may be due to the battery lifetime of the 6LoWPAN device. This kind of failure will cause the expiration of the association event and make the previously assigned 16-bit short address of the child node from the failure parent node become invalid within PAN. In this paper, a new path recovery mechanism so-called step parent node (SPN) algorithm is proposed to conventional HiLow to reassign the valid 16-bit short addresses for the child nodes of the failure parent node and provide the path robustness. The child nodes of the failure parent node will broadcast a step parent node request message (spn_request) to the neighbor nodes. The neighbor node whose child nodes do not exceed the maximum child value will act as a step parent node of the new child nodes. It enhances the reliability of conventional hierarchical routing mechanism. IEEE 2010 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/68565/1/Path%20recovery%20mechanism%20in%206LoWPAN%20routing.pdf Ee, Gee Keng and Ng, Chee Kyun and Noordin, Nor Kamariah and Mohd Ali, Borhanuddin (2010) Path recovery mechanism in 6LoWPAN routing. In: International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE 2010), 11-12 May 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. . 10.1109/ICCCE.2010.5556760
spellingShingle Ee, Gee Keng
Ng, Chee Kyun
Noordin, Nor Kamariah
Mohd Ali, Borhanuddin
Path recovery mechanism in 6LoWPAN routing
title Path recovery mechanism in 6LoWPAN routing
title_full Path recovery mechanism in 6LoWPAN routing
title_fullStr Path recovery mechanism in 6LoWPAN routing
title_full_unstemmed Path recovery mechanism in 6LoWPAN routing
title_short Path recovery mechanism in 6LoWPAN routing
title_sort path recovery mechanism in 6lowpan routing
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http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/68565/1/Path%20recovery%20mechanism%20in%206LoWPAN%20routing.pdf