The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has defined the 6TiSCH architecture to enable the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). While many industrial applications involve mobile devices (e.g., mobile robots or wearable devices carried by workers), 6TiSCH does not provide any mechanism to manage node mobility. However, recently, a Synchronized Single-hop Mul-tiple Gateway (SHMG) architecture has been proposed to allow an efficient management of mobile nodes in 6TiSCH networks. The SHMG architecture is quite flexible and can be customized to meet the requirements of different IIoT applications. However, find the appropriate configuration to guarantee the application requirements, may not be trivial. In this paper, we present Mobile6TiSCH, a simulation tool based on OMNeT ++, that implements the SHMG architecture. The proposed tool is general and allows to evaluate the Quality of Service (QoS) achieved by mobile nodes, in different scenarios. As such, it can be used to evaluate different solutions in a simulated environment before implementing them in practice. We describe the organization and implementation of Mobile6TiSCH and show the simulation results to display its effectiveness.

Mobile6TiSCH: a Simulator for 6TiSCH-based Industrial IoT Networks with Mobile Nodes

Pettorali, Marco;Righetti, Francesca;Vallati, Carlo
2022-01-01

Abstract

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has defined the 6TiSCH architecture to enable the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). While many industrial applications involve mobile devices (e.g., mobile robots or wearable devices carried by workers), 6TiSCH does not provide any mechanism to manage node mobility. However, recently, a Synchronized Single-hop Mul-tiple Gateway (SHMG) architecture has been proposed to allow an efficient management of mobile nodes in 6TiSCH networks. The SHMG architecture is quite flexible and can be customized to meet the requirements of different IIoT applications. However, find the appropriate configuration to guarantee the application requirements, may not be trivial. In this paper, we present Mobile6TiSCH, a simulation tool based on OMNeT ++, that implements the SHMG architecture. The proposed tool is general and allows to evaluate the Quality of Service (QoS) achieved by mobile nodes, in different scenarios. As such, it can be used to evaluate different solutions in a simulated environment before implementing them in practice. We describe the organization and implementation of Mobile6TiSCH and show the simulation results to display its effectiveness.
2022
978-1-6654-6457-4
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