Analyzing and Evaluating the Performance of 6LoWPAN and RPL Using CONTIKI

Recent trends of universal computing and the Internet of Things require everyday objects to be IP addressable and Internet accessible. The 6LoWPAN network protocol, data link layer which lies in an adaptation layer and make use of IEEE 802.15.4 standard for constructing the constrained networks. Moreover, this standard not only provides short-range radio frequency transmissions, low-power and low-data-rate, which is appropriate for wireless communication devices such as actuators and sensors, but also provides intelligence, connectivity, reliability, sensing and expressing of this technology are used in various applications like Smart Garbage Smart Cans, Smart Healthcare and Smart Meters etc. RPL is based on IPv6 routing protocol which is used low power, lossy Networks (LLNs). Our work is a based on and Contiki OS using Cooja simulator, with the help of IOT we are calculating temperature and light of wireless sensor nodes. Then compared trace packets, it shows capturing the packets through wire shark with 6LoWPAN analyzer consumes more power consumption, rather than with 6LoWPAN analyzer consumes less power consumption.