Glowbal IP: An Adaptive and Transparent IPv6 Integration in the Internet of Things

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) requires scalability, extensibility and a transparent integration of multi-technology in order to reach an efficient support for global communications, discovery and look-up, as well as access to services and information. To achieve these goals, it is necessary to enable a homogenous and seamless machine-to-machine (M2M) communication mechanism allowing global access to devices, sensors and smart objects. In this respect, the proposed answer to these technological requirements is called Glowbal IP, which is based on a homogeneous access to the devices/sensors offered by the IPv6 addressing and core network. Glowbal IP's main advantages with regard to 6LoWPAN/IPv6 are not only that it presents a low overhead to reach a higher performance on a regular basis, but also that it determines the session and identifies global access by means of a session layer defined over the application layer. Technologies without any native support for IP are thereby adaptable to IP e.g. IEEE 802.15.4 and Bluetooth Low Energy. This extension towards the IPv6 network opens access to the features and methods of the devices through a homogenous access based on WebServices (e.g. RESTFul/CoAP). In addition to this, Glowbal IP offers global interoperability among the different devices, and interoperability with external servers and users applications. All in all, it allows the storage of information related to the devices in the network through the extension of the Domain Name System (DNS) from the IPv6 core network, by adding the Service Directory extension (DNS-SD) to store information about the sensors, their properties and functionality. A step forward in network-based information systems is thereby reached, allowing a homogenous discovery, and access to the devices from the IoT. Thus, the IoT capabilities are exploited by allowing an easier and more transparent integration of the end users applications with sensors for the future evaluations and use cases. A.J. Jara et al. / Glowbal IP: An adaptive and transparent IPv6 integration in the IoT factors, and can even include clinical devices in e-Health and solutions for Ambient Assisted Living environments [7].Flexibility, ubiquity and scalability are properties found in the current Internet, and that is why the aforementioned challenges can be solved not only with the new capabilities to link Internet with everyday sensors and devices, but also with the exploitation of data captured from the Future Internet through the so-called Internet of Things (IoT).Future Internet and the IoT represent unprecedented growth in the number of devices and users connected to the Internet. Therefore, the devices should be as autonomous as possible in satisfying the so-called 'self-* functionalities', such as self-management, self-healing, and self-discovery. These properties are especially challenging in the Internet of Things, where many devices are mobile and, consequently, can change their location in the network.For that reason, this research is focused on operating on top ...

Theoretical Research on the Time Delay and Corresponding Issues for the Novel Category of Internet of Things Control System

“…Perception networks typically got consist of computing, communications and storage capacity of poor awareness via mobile nodes and a combination of static node. Usually use of the existing Internet infrastructure and transmission provide powerful computing, communications and storage services [46][47][48][49]. Now about access control for sensor networks is a closed network and IOT perception layer will have multiple sensor subnets with the mobile users frequently switch between each sensor subnet, existing access control mechanisms are mostly unable to adapt to the complex architecture.…”

An Analysis of Context-Aware Data Models for Smart Cities: Towards Fiware and Etsi Cim Emerging Data Model

“…The IPv6 integration is being reached through 6LoWPAN (Hui and Thubert (2011)) and GLoWBAL IPv6 (Jara et al (2012a)) for emerging IoT resources, but also through IPv6 Addressing Proxies for legacy technologies such as those described from the home and building automation sectors (Jara et al (2013)). …”

“…The second phase enabled a seamless interoperability among the heterogeneous entities.The existing heterogeneous islands of devices were interconnected using IPv6. The integration was established at the connectivity level with solution such as 6LoWPAN (Hui and Thubert (2011)) and GLoWBAL IPv6 (Jara et al (2012a)). …”

Extension of the ITS Station Architecture to Low-Power Pervasive Sensor Networks

“…In an attempt to implement the combined system the major work items consists of the development of a common network protocol and analysis of the feasibility of various routing protocols in both the access and network layers. There are examples of transparent IPv6 integration of IoT [17], but none of them formalize the proposed solution in a single, use-case independent architecture for a combined IoT-ITS purposes.…”