An IPv6-based Load Balancing Strategy for Ecological Monitoring Network

Wireless sensor networks have been widely used in environmental monitoring, but one of the characteristics of the traditional IPv6 wireless sensor networks using in the environmental monitoring is traffic convergent. In the root node, the flow of collecting sensor data could be much heavy than other nodes. The overall structure of the load is unbalance. Therefore, using multiple devices at the root node deployment to facilitate data collection could be inevitable in heavy traffic sensor environment. However, with the increase of the number of sensor nodes deployed at the root nodes, it is hard to control the access between them. In this paper, an IPv6-based load balancing strategy for ecological monitoring network are presented to solve this problem. Finally, we will use some experiments to prove its effectiveness.