6LoWPAN
Sign in to savethumb 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks) was a working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It was created with the intention of applying the Internet Protocol (IP) even to the smallest devices, enabling low-power devices with limited processing capabilities to participate in the Internet of Things.
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- Application areas
- Thread
- Functions
- Adapting the packet sizes of the two networks
- Address resolution
- Differing device designs
- Differing focus on parameter optimization
- Adaptation layer for interoperability and packet formats
- Addressing management mechanisms
- Routing considerations and protocols for mesh topologies in 6LoWPAN
- Routing
- Device and service discovery
- Security
- Header compression
- History of 6LoWPAN
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks) was a working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It was created with the intention of applying the Internet Protocol (IP) even to the smallest devices, enabling low-power devices with limited processing capabilities to participate in the Internet of Things.
The 6LoWPAN group defined encapsulation, header compression, neighbor discovery and other mechanisms that allow IPv6 to operate over IEEE 802.15.4 based networks. Although IPv4 and IPv6 protocols do not generally care about the physical and MAC layers they operate over, the low-power devices and small packet size defined by IEEE 802.15.4 make it desirable to adapt to these layers.