Global IoT mobility: a path based forwarding approach

Al-Khalidi, Mohammed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1655-8514, Al-Zaidi, Rabab, Abubahia, Ahmed M, Pandey, Hari Mohan, Biswas, Md Israfil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8603-4089 and Hammoudeh, Mohammad ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9735-2365 (2022) Global IoT mobility: a path based forwarding approach. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, 11 (3). p. 41. ISSN 2224-2708

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Abstract

With the huge proliferation of mobile Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as connected vehicles, drones, and healthcare wearables, IoT networks are promising mobile connectivity capacity far beyond the conventional computing platforms. The success of this service provisioning is highly dependent on the flexibility offered by such enabling technologies to support IoT mobility using different devices and protocol stacks. Many of the connected mobile IoT devices are autonomous, and resource constrained, which poses additional challenges for mobile IoT communication. Therefore, given the unique mobility requirements of IoT devices and applications, many challenges are still to be addressed. This paper presents a global mobility management solution for IoT networks that can handle both micro and macro mobility scenarios. The solution exploits a path-based forwarding fabric together with mechanisms from Information-Centric Networking. The solution is equally suitable for legacy session-based mobile devices and emerging information-based IoT devices such as mobile sensors. Simulation evaluations have shown minimum overhead in terms of packet delivery and signalling costs to support macro mobility handover across different IoT domains.