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The impact of packet fragmentation on Internet-of-Things enabled systems

James Pope, Robert Simon

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    Abstract

    The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a collection of technologies designed to interconnect physical devices with the Internet. Due to device resource constraints IoT connectivity requires the redesign of several basic Internet protocols. This paper studies the impact of packet fragmentation at the data link level on the end-to-end performance of some of these redesigned protocols. Our results show that fragmentation can seriously degrade the performance of a typical IoT device to gateway communication modality. On the other hand, our results also show that with proper design of data broadcast mechanisms, gateway-to-device communication can be maintained at high performance levels. These results can be used as a guide for IoT network engineers.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the ITI 2013 - 35th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces
    Pages13-18
    Number of pages6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013
    Event35th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, ITI 2013 - Cavtat / Dubrovnik, Croatia
    Duration: 24 Jun 201327 Jun 2013

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, ITI
    ISSN (Print)1330-1012

    Conference

    Conference35th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, ITI 2013
    Country/TerritoryCroatia
    CityCavtat / Dubrovnik
    Period24/06/1327/06/13

    Bibliographical note

    Copyright:
    Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

    Keywords

    • Internet of Things Communication
    • Internet Protocols over Embedded Systems
    • Low-power and Lossy Networks

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