6LoWPAN Stacks: A Survey

Author

Yibo, Chen ; Hou, Kun-mean ; Zhou, Haiying ; Shi, Hong-Ling ; Liu, Xing ; Diao, Xunxing ; Ding, Hao ; Li, Jian-Jin ; De Vaulx, Christophe

Author_Institution

LIMOS Lab., Blaise Pascal Univ. Clermont-Ferrand II, Clermont-Ferrand, France

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is one of the key technologies of 21st century, while it is a very active and challenging research area. It seems that in the next coming year, thanks to 6LoWPAN, these wireless micro-sensors will be embedded in everywhere, because 6LoWPAN enables P2P connection between wireless nodes over IPv6. Nowadays different implementations of 6LoWPAN stacks are available so it is interesting to evaluate their performance in term of memory footprint and compliant with the RFC4919 and RFC4944. In this paper, we present a survey on the state-of-art of the current implementation of 6LoWPAN stacks such as uIP/Contiki, SICSlowpan, 6lowpancli, B6LoWPAN, BLIP, NanoStack and Jennic´s stack. The key features of all these 6LoWPAN stacks will be established. Finally, we discuss the evolution of the current implementations of 6LoWPAN stacks.

Keywords

IP networks; peer-to-peer computing; performance evaluation; personal area networks; wireless sensor networks; 61owpancli; 6L0WPAN stacks; B6L0WPAN; BLIP; IPv6; Jennic stack; P2P connection; RFC4919; RFC4944; SICSlowpan; performance evaluation; wireless microsensors; wireless nodes; wireless sensor network; Ad hoc networks; Educational institutions; IP networks; Internet; Protocols; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2011 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2161-9646

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6250-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/wicom.2011.6040344

Filename

6040344