HAT: HIP Address Translation protocol for Hybrid RFID/IP Internet of Things communication

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is considered as an emerging technology for the Future Internet called the Internet of Things (IOT). It allows things and objects that embed RFID tags to be identified and to exchange information with each other. However, this new Internet is facing to some problems which are mainly related to the security of information exchange and the integration of RFID tags to the current Internet. The new version of the IETF Host Identity Protocol (HIP) proposed in the Thing to Thing in the Internet of Things project (T2TIT) overcomes the problem of security. Nevertheless, the integration of RFID tags into the IP world is still an open issue. Due to the lack of capacity and resources, these tags can not implement the entire IP stack. To address this issue, we propose in this paper, a new protocol HIP Address Protocol (HAT) that provides network services such as address translation system between the Tag RFID ID and IP addresses, encapsulation/decapsulation, fragmentation/reassembly and object mobility management services. We provide a detailed description of the proposed protocol. We also illustrate through significant scenarios how it operates.