Experimental Evaluation of 6BLEMesh: IPv6-Based BLE Mesh Networks
Department of Network Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, C/Esteve Terradas, 7, 08860 Castelldefels, Spain
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Sensors 2020, 20(16), 4623; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20164623
Received: 29 June 2020
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Revised: 1 August 2020
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Accepted: 13 August 2020
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Published: 17 August 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bluetooth Low Energy: Advances and Applications)
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) has become a major wireless technology for the Internet of Things (IoT). Recent efforts of academia, industry and standards development organizations have focused on creating BLE mesh network solutions. 6BLEMesh is a specification being developed by the IETF that defines an IPv6-oriented approach for BLE mesh networking. In this paper, we perform an experimental evaluation of 6BLEMesh, based on a real implementation. We evaluate latency, round trip time (RTT) and energy consumption. For the latter, we model the device current consumption, we determine the energy efficiency of communication, and we obtain the theoretical device lifetime (for battery-operated devices), for three different hardware platforms. Under the assumptions in our study (including a simple 235 mAh battery, and periodic data transmission), the maximum, asymptotic, device lifetime is 573 days, whereas battery-operated router devices can also achieve 3-digit lifetimes (in days) in many scenarios. Our results also illustrate the impact on performance of BLE-level and application-level parameter settings, adaptation layer mechanisms such as IPv6 header compression, and device hardware characteristics.
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Keywords:
bluetooth low energy; BLE; mesh; 6LoWPAN; 6Lo; experimental evaluation; energy modeling; internet of things; IoT
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Chicago/Turabian StyleDarroudi, Seyed M., and Carles Gomez. 2020. "Experimental Evaluation of 6BLEMesh: IPv6-Based BLE Mesh Networks" Sensors 20, no. 16: 4623. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20164623
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