An IPv6 Address Assignment Protocol Based on Multi-agents for Wireless Sensor Networks
Yang Xiao-zong · Journal of Astronautics · 2009
The auto assignment of IP address is required in order that the wireless sensor networks can be applied effectively and communicates with the Internet easily.In this paper,we present SNMAAP (Sensor Networks Multi-agents Address Assignment Protocol),an IPv6 address assignment protocol based on multi-agents for sensor networks,utilizing the IPv6 to meet the wireless sensor network requirement of considerable network addresses.By using agent nodes in the network,not only each node can get an IP address in a short period of time,but also the probability of the address collision and overhead is low.We simulate the SNMAAP and the other two address assignment protocols,the IPv6 Stateless Auto-configuration and MANETconf,on the OPNET Modeler.The simulation results demonstrate that under the same condition,SNMAAP guarantees a unique IP address assignment and has lower latency,communication and duplicate address detection overhead.