ECIS, an Energy Conservation and Interconnection Scheme between WSN and Internet Based on the 6LoWPAN

Abstract

Wireless sensor network (WSN), which has broad application prospects, consists small nodes with sensing, computation and communications capabilities. Short for IPv6 over low power WPAN, 6LoWPAN is a kind of technology which makes IPv6 stack run on the Low PAN devices. In order to establish seamless connection of two heterogeneous networks, WSN and IPv6 network, this paper proposes an improved Energy Conservation and Interconnection Scheme (ECIS) based the analysis of current schemes. Detailed design of each functional component in the new scheme is proposed, and an expansion of SSCS module in NS2 802.15.4 simulator is examined. Comprehensive experiments on the simulation platform show that this newly proposed scheme is advantageous over existed similar attempts.