LIENE: Lifetime Enhancement for 6LoWPAN Network Using Clustering Approach Use Case: Smart Agriculture

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the largest technological evolutions of computing. With the rapid development of communication, there was a tremendous growth of IoT technology across various fields. IoT devices might be resource-constrained like sensors, actuators, and embedded devices with the IEEE 802.15.4. IoT enables widespread and ubiquitous IoT applications: transportation, logistics, safety and security, health-care, manufacturing, etc. IoT application without sensing devices is impracticable. These sensing devices are battery-powered and constrained by inadequate energy in terms of communication and computation. The optimized communication directs to a more extended network lifetime. Least hop count, enhanced scalability, and connectivity are onerous issues that can be addressed entirely by a clustering mechanism. We conduct comprehensive simulation studies for performance analysis and comparative study of IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN). with the conventional approaches in the IoT ecosystem. The experimental outcomes prove that the intended approach outperforms closely-related works.