IP-Enabled Wireless Sensor Network

Deyun Gao 1 and Chuan Heng Foh 2 and Oliver W. W. Yang 3 and Xusheng Sun 4 and Chin-Feng Lai 5 1, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China 2, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore 3, School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada 4, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA 5, Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Ilan University, Ilan 26041, Taiwan Received 17 December 2012; Accepted 17 December 2012 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For this, IPv6 has ready solutions. [...]the large number of devices poses the need for a large address space, which is well met by IPv6.