An Enhanced Group Mobility Protocol for 6Lowpan-Based Wireless Body Area Networks

M Shanthi¹, K Sudhaman²

^1,2Department of ECE, DR.M.G.R. Education & Research Institute University, India

Abstract

Various wireless sensor nodes can be attached to the human body or clothes and hence can form a wireless network named as the Wireless Body Area Networks. In this project, the concept of group-based network roaming in Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) domain is considered in the 6LoWPAN-based wireless body area networks. PMIPv6 is a standard to manage the network-based mobility in all - IP wireless network. However, it does not perform well in group-based body area networks. To further reduce the handoff delay and signalling cost, an enhanced group mobility scheme is proposed in this paper to reduce the number of control messages, including Router Solicitation (RS) and Router Advertisement (RA) messages as opposed to the group-based PMIPv6 protocol. Simulation results illustrate that the proposed handoff scheme can reduce the handoff delay and signalling cost. The packet loss ratio and the overhead can also be reduced.

Keywords

• Wireless Body Area Networks, Router Solicitation, Router Advertisement

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M Shanthi, K Sudhaman. "An Enhanced Group Mobility Protocol for 6Lowpan-Based Wireless Body Area Networks." International Conference on Advanced Innovations in Engineering and Technology (2017): 14. Print.