A Self-Organizing Management Architecture for Low Powered Wireless Personal Area Networks
Yekta Türk · 2020 International Conference on Electrical, Communication, and Computer Engineering (ICECCE) · 2020
Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (LoWPAN) has begun to be widely used in daily-life applications such as surveillance and maintenance. Their simple structures and low cost make them ideal for these kinds of tasks. LoWPAN nodes mostly locate outside world and may suffer from physical intervention. Other wireless sources may also have effect on transmission quality of LoWPAN nodes. Besides these concerns, unmanaged devices have potential to be exposed to various types of security threats. LoWPAN nodes need to be managed as a consequence of these reasons. Proactive approaches are ideal solutions for the management and governance of constrained devices. In this paper, a self-organizing architecture for device and network management in LoWPAN is proposed. The architecture defines the framework to process management data and mechanisms for improvement actions. A real-time test environment is prepared to show that how the system can run with different LoWPAN management protocols and a performance comparison of those protocols is also presented.