Análise do protocolo RPL em redes LLNs no ambiente de internet das coisas, healthcare

Abstract

Just as several economic and social sectors are on the rise in technology, the healthcare environment has emerged as an under-explored area in the field of communications. The potential of the Internet of Things can be a great ally to assist the health sector as a whole, from hospital environments to home monitoring. Due to the equipment's characteristics, a bet would be the use of the RPL routing protocol, developed for low power networks and equipment with low processing performance and energy capacity. The demand for life support equipment is very high, and by providing health professionals with a very large amount of data, this work aims to contribute to making the use of IoT viable, seeking to facilitate the use of equipment and contribute to health and life quality of people. The main objective is to use the existing resources to simulate health environments, studying the behavior of the devices. For this application, the COOJA network simulator, available in the Contiki operating system, will be used, simulating two types of environments common to health, with different characteristics, such as the presence of a large number of equipment connected to the same network, and the presence of mobility.