MIPv6 in Crowdsensing Applications for SIoT Environments

Crowdsensing can be an enabler of the Social Internet of Things (SIoT), among a plethora of other systems, elements, infrastructure, and applications. Although in the short term crowdsensing can be supported within the traditional wireless cellular infrastructure, in the longer term, it will be an important component of the evolving Smart City paradigm. Given the expected increase of urban populations in the next 35 years, this application not only will assist in the process of “greening the environment” but also make city living more livable. Clearly, mobility is at the core of crowdsensing in particular, and SIoT in general. While several mobility management techniques have emerged, an extensive body of applicable research has been developed in the past twenty years, in the form of the Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and related protocols. As of press time over seventy RFCs had been published by the IETF on MIPv6 and related MIPv6 mobility protocols; yet, MIPv6 has received relatively little attention up to now in the IoT. Broad deployment of SIoT will benefit from MIPv6 technologies. This chapter describes key MIPv6 features and its propitious applicability to crowdsensing and SIoT, particularly given 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) recent adoption of it for some 4G/5G scenarios.