Extending IP to Low-Power, Wireless Personal Area Networks
July/August 2008 (vol. 12 no. 4)
pp. 37-45
DOI Bookmark:
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2008.79
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.
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Index Terms:
IPv6, 6LoWPAN, IEEE 802.15.4, wireless, networks, sensor networks, internetworking
Citation:
Jonathan W. Hui, David E. Culler, "Extending IP to Low-Power, Wireless Personal Area Networks," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 37-45, July/Aug. 2008, doi:10.1109/MIC.2008.79
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