Heterogeneous IoT Mobility Framework for Mobile Robot Agents
Lóberi López-Estrada · 2018
Across the latest years, many technologies have been proposed to solve the Mobility Problem (MP), i.e., sustain and deploy connectivity during the displacement of a robotic agent or device along a physical path, while resiliency and efficiency do not have to be decreased due to instability in the connection or connectivity loss. Technologies like Mobile IPv4 and IPv6, Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (MIPv4, MIPv6/HMIPv6) are explicitly thought for this matter. However, after several years they are still maturing, and they have not reached a widespread deployment, leaving the MP still as an open research topic. The Internet of Things provides mobile agents or robots with the paradigms to achieve real-time functions, yet the barriers to overcome the MP are still to solve. Thus, this work is meant to offer a simpler, backward compatible solution thought for the present and future needs of mobile robots connected to the Internet. Based on Multipath-TCP over a Low-Level Network Framework as our contribution. After experiments performed over a mobile robot under a non-dedicated communication environment (congested); our proposal proved efficiency in data delivery, bandwidth increase, efficient fault tolerance and handover response, obtaining mobility fulfillment across the testing place (research center).