TEMPERATURE AND POWER INVESTIGATION OF 6LOWPAN AND RPL PROTOCOLS FOR LOW POWER INTERNET OF THINGS

摘要

Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology which enables the connection, communication and interaction of a huge number of complex heterogeneous devices without human intervention. The communication involved in IoT targets from micro applications to the macro ones while managing vertical through horizontal scalability. Huge number of smart devices connected in the IoT possesses connection mechanisms which may be wireless or wired in nature. The wireless mechanisms in the IoT come with lots of challenges associates with them. There are crucial IoT protocols in the IoT protocol stack namely Low Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN) and Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Area Networks (RPL) which makes the wireless communications amongst these numerous IoT smart things having low power and limited memory happen. In such a constrained IoT scenario, it becomes very important to evaluate the performance of these protocols in terms of various performance affecting parameters. In the light of the same, this research paper investigates the power and temperature analysis along with comparison of 6LoWPAN and RPL protocols in terms of consumed power. It is observed that the choice of which protocol to use clearly relies on the application of context. Further, temperature and power of the nodes plays vital role in the performance of protocols in the IoT systems. The results are plotted in form of graphs.