IP based Wireless Sensor Networks (IP-WSNs) are gaining importance for their broad range
of applications in health-care, home automation, environmental monitoring, industrial
control, vehicle telematics and agricultural monitoring. In all these applications, mobility in
the sensor network with special attention to energy efficiency is a major issue to be
addressed. Host-based mobility management protocols are not suitable for IP-WSNs
because of their energy inefficiency, so network based mobility management protocols can …

Abstract The Internet Protocol–based wireless sensor network (IP-WSN) is gaining
importance for its broad range of applications in healthcare, home automation,
environmental monitoring, industrial control, vehicle telematics, and agricultural monitoring.
In all of these applications, mobility in sensor networks, with special attention to energy
efficiency, is a major issue to be addressed. A host-based mobility management protocol is
not suitable for IP-WSN because of its energy inefficiency. So, a network-based mobility …