A New Method of IPv6 Addressing Based on EPC-mapping in the Internet of Things

Internet of Things is the concept of connecting every device to the internet. RFID systems are used in IoT due to their brilliant advantages. Hence, IoT faces many challenges such as limited address space in RFID systems. Lots of proposed methods are using different algorithms based on Electronic Product Code and RFID reader to generate new IPv6 addressing mechanisms. EPC is used in RFID systems to identify the products. Different addressing methods are analyzed in this study. Also, we propose a new EPC based IPv6 addressing mechanism with the help of reader NetID to provide a unique and hierarchical address for RFID. The main advantages of our proposed method is that, our mechanism is very simple and easy to implement.