Enhancing Energy Saving in Smart Farming through Aggregation and Partition Aware IoT Routing Protocol
Internet of things (IoT) for precision agriculture or Smart Farming (SF) is an emerging area of application. It consists essentially of deploying wireless sensor networks (WSNs), composed of IP-enabled sensor nodes, in a partitioned farmland area. When the surface, diversity, and complexity of the f...
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| description | Internet of things (IoT) for precision agriculture or Smart Farming (SF) is an emerging area of application. It consists essentially of deploying wireless sensor networks (WSNs), composed of IP-enabled sensor nodes, in a partitioned farmland area. When the surface, diversity, and complexity of the farm increases, the number of sensing nodes increases, generating heavy exchange of data and messages, and thus leading to network congestion, radio interference, and high energy consumption. In this work, we propose a novel routing algorithm extending the well known IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy Networks (RPL), the standard routing protocol used for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN). It is referred to as the Partition Aware-RPL (PA-RPL) and improves the performance of the standard RPL. In contrast to RPL, the proposed technique builds a routing topology enabling efficient in-network data aggregation, hence dramatically reducing data traffic through the network. Performance analysis of a typical/realistic precision agriculture case, considering the potato pest prevention from the well-known late blight disease, shows that PA-RPL improves energy saving up to <inline-formula> <math display="inline"> <semantics> <mrow> <mn>40</mn> <mo>%</mo> </mrow> </semantics> </math> </inline-formula> compared to standard RPL. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e76eed20fd494775a1ce9b29d4961e9a2023-11-20T00:13:17ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202020-05-012010276010.3390/s20102760Enhancing Energy Saving in Smart Farming through Aggregation and Partition Aware IoT Routing ProtocolKarim Fathallah0Mohamed Amine Abid1Nejib Ben Hadj-Alouane2National Engineering School of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, 1002 Tunis, TunisiaFakultät für Informatik und Mathematik, University of Passau, 94032 Passau, GermanyNational Engineering School of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, 1002 Tunis, TunisiaInternet of things (IoT) for precision agriculture or Smart Farming (SF) is an emerging area of application. It consists essentially of deploying wireless sensor networks (WSNs), composed of IP-enabled sensor nodes, in a partitioned farmland area. When the surface, diversity, and complexity of the farm increases, the number of sensing nodes increases, generating heavy exchange of data and messages, and thus leading to network congestion, radio interference, and high energy consumption. In this work, we propose a novel routing algorithm extending the well known IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy Networks (RPL), the standard routing protocol used for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN). It is referred to as the Partition Aware-RPL (PA-RPL) and improves the performance of the standard RPL. In contrast to RPL, the proposed technique builds a routing topology enabling efficient in-network data aggregation, hence dramatically reducing data traffic through the network. Performance analysis of a typical/realistic precision agriculture case, considering the potato pest prevention from the well-known late blight disease, shows that PA-RPL improves energy saving up to <inline-formula> <math display="inline"> <semantics> <mrow> <mn>40</mn> <mo>%</mo> </mrow> </semantics> </math> </inline-formula> compared to standard RPL.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/10/2760RPLPA-RPLWSN6LoWPANSmart FarmingIn-network data aggregation |
| spellingShingle | Karim Fathallah Mohamed Amine Abid Nejib Ben Hadj-Alouane Enhancing Energy Saving in Smart Farming through Aggregation and Partition Aware IoT Routing Protocol Sensors RPL PA-RPL WSN 6LoWPAN Smart Farming In-network data aggregation |
| title | Enhancing Energy Saving in Smart Farming through Aggregation and Partition Aware IoT Routing Protocol |
| title_full | Enhancing Energy Saving in Smart Farming through Aggregation and Partition Aware IoT Routing Protocol |
| title_fullStr | Enhancing Energy Saving in Smart Farming through Aggregation and Partition Aware IoT Routing Protocol |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enhancing Energy Saving in Smart Farming through Aggregation and Partition Aware IoT Routing Protocol |
| title_short | Enhancing Energy Saving in Smart Farming through Aggregation and Partition Aware IoT Routing Protocol |
| title_sort | enhancing energy saving in smart farming through aggregation and partition aware iot routing protocol |
| topic | RPL PA-RPL WSN 6LoWPAN Smart Farming In-network data aggregation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/10/2760 |
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