Santhosh Kumar, G; Sreejesh, V K(IEEE, July 7, 2012)
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Abstract:
Extending IPv6 to IEEE 802.15.4-based Low power
Wireless Personal Area Networks requires efficient header
compression mechanisms to adapt to their limited bandwidth,
memory and energy constraints. This paper presents an
experimental evaluation of an improved header compression
scheme which provides better compression of IPv6 multicast
addresses and UDP port numbers compared to existing
mechanisms. This scheme outperforms the existing compression
mechanism in terms of data throughput of the network
and energy consumption of nodes. It enhances throughput by
up to 8% and reduces transmission energy of nodes by about 5%.