Some Implications of Low-Power Wireless to IP Routing
Published in Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets V), November 2006.
Abstract
We examine and outline challenges in IPv6 routing over low-power wireless personal area networks (PANs). We present empirical measurements and analysis of an increasingly popular PAN link layer, 802.15.4. We show that over short periods 802.15.4 exhibits bimodal connectivity, but over longer periods has many intermediate links. We quantify how synchonous acknowledgments affect common low-power routing metrics, such as ETX. We identify metrics for detecting modal changes in link quality. We explore how these behaviors affect IP routing and IPv6 requirements, such as route selection and maintenance, sub-IP fragmentation and assembly, and packet scheduling.
BibTeX entry
@inproceedings{hotnets06srinivasan,
author = "Kannan Srinivasan and Prabal Dutta and Arsalan Tavakoli and Philip Levis",
title = "{Some Implications of Low-Power Wireless to IP Routing}",
booktitle = "{Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets V)}",
year = {2006},
month = {November}
}