Impact of Mobility on Power Consumption in RPL

Volume 6 Issue 4 January - March 2018

Research Article

Impact of Mobility on Power Consumption in RPL

Chandra Sekhar Sanaboina*, Pallamsetty Sanaboina**

* Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India.

** Professor, Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Sanaboina, C.S., and Sanaboina, P.(2018). Impact of Mobility on Power Consumption in RPL. i-manager's Journal on Wireless Communication Networks, 6(4), 23-37. https://doi.org/10.26634/jwcn.6.4.14796

Abstract

The main theme of this paper is to implement the mobility model in Cooja simulator and to investigate the impact of the mobility on the performance of Routing Protocol over Low power Lossy networks (RPL) in the IoT environment. In the real world, mobility occurs frequently. Therefore in this paper, a frequently used mobility model - Random Way Point (RWP) is used for analysis. RWP can be readily applied to many existing applications. By default, the Cooja simulator does not support mobility models. For this, the Bonn Motion is introduced into Cooja as a plugin. As IoT deals with the resourceconstrained environment, a comparison is done between the static environment and the mobile environment in terms of power consumption. As expected, the results indicate that mobility affects the RPL in terms of Power Consumption.