Journal
IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages 1142-1145Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2022.3159257
Keywords
Internet of Things; Wireless communication; Performance evaluation; Light emitting diodes; Servers; Lighting; Throughput; 6LoWPAN; IPv6; Internet of Things (IoT); optical wireless communications (OWC)
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- Research and Development Programs of Korean Government [NRF2021R1I1A3057509, S3125303]
- Korea Technology & Information Promotion Agency for SMEs (TIPA) [S3125303] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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This article introduces a new architecture model for IoT networks using Optical Wireless Communications (OWC) and 6LoWPAN, which provides performance enhancement in IoT networks.
As an emerging technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) wireless connectivity, there have been a lot of research and standardization activities on Visible Light Communications (VLC) and Optical Wireless Communications (OWC) using Light Emitting Diode (LED) lights. In the meantime, the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) over Low Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) has been discussed to provide the IPv6-based IoT services in wireless networks. However, the study on IoT systems using 6LoWPAN over OWC networks has not been made so far. This letter proposes a new architectural model to effectively use 6LoWPAN between IoT gateway and IoT device in the OWC-based IoT networks. The proposed model is easy to implement and provides the performance enhancement in OWC-based IoT networks, compared to the general IPv6 model. From testbed experimentations, it is shown that the proposed model provides the delay gain up to 5% and the throughput gain up to 19.52%, compared to the conventional IPv6 transport model.
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