Extending IP to Low-Power, Wireless Personal Area Networks

Author

Hui, Jonathan W. ; Culler, David E.

Author_Institution

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

Volume

12

Issue

4

fYear

2008

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

45

Abstract

Extending IP to low-power, wireless personal area networks (LoWPANs) was once considered impractical because these networks are highly constrained and must operate unattended for multiyear lifetimes on modest batteries. Many vendors embraced proprietary protocols, assuming that IP was too resource-intensive to be scaled down to operate on the microcontrollers and low-power wireless links used in LoWPAN settings. However, 6LoWPAN radically alters the calculation by introducing an adaptation layer that enables efficient IPv6 communication over IEEE 802.15.4 LoWPAN links.

Keywords

microcontrollers; personal area networks; telecommunication network reliability; transport protocols; IEEE 802.15.4 LoWPAN link; IPv6 communication; microcontroller; multiyear lifetime; proprietary protocol; wireless personal area network; Batteries; Ethernet networks; Internet; Manufacturing; Microcontrollers; Monitoring; Multicast protocols; Transport protocols; Wireless application protocol; Wireless personal area networks; 6LoWPAN; IEEE 802.15.4; IPv6; internetworking; networks; sensor networks; wireless;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2008.79

Filename

4557977