Experimental evaluation of 6BLEMesh: IPv6-based BLE mesh networks
Darroudi, Seyed Mahdi; Gómez Montenegro, Carlos
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) has become a major wireless technology for the Internet of
Things (IoT). Recent efforts of academia, industry and standards development organizations have
focused on creating BLE mesh network solutions. 6BLEMesh is a specification being developed by the
IETF that defines an IPv6-oriented approach for BLE mesh networking. In this paper, we perform an
experimental evaluation of 6BLEMesh, based on a real implementation. We evaluate latency, round
trip time (RTT) and energy consumption. For the latter, we model the device current consumption,
we determine the energy efficiency of communication, and we obtain the theoretical device lifetime
(for battery-operated devices), for three different hardware platforms
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