Towards cellular IP address assignment in wireless heterogeneous sensor networks

In this paper, we have proposed a dynamic IP address assignment architecture for wireless heterogeneous sensor networks. The assignment scheme and the architecture guarantee that communication channels can be assigned only between the registered devices ensuring the security. The dynamic IP address assignment scheme is based on the advertisement of the IP address utilization status at the base stations. Thus, each base station advertises its IP address utilization database when the ratio of the negative acknowledgement messages received from the DNS exceeds a certain threshold. By simulations, we have shown that the proposed assignment scheme introduces significant enhancement in terms of blocking probability when compared to an approach where each base station has its own IP address pool. Furthermore, we have defined three types of blocking, the real blocking, the unjustified acceptance and the unjustified rejections. We have seen that the proposed scheme can lead to lower blocking probability compared to the uniform IP assignment as long as the update threshold is kept below 1.5%.