IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs): Overview, Assumptions, Problem Statement, and Goals

By Nandakishore Kushalnagar, Gabriel E. Montenegro, Christian Schumacher. Request for Comments, 2007

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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The Internet of Things in an Enterprise Context (2009, background): “example, EPCglobal as well as ISO offer a family of standards for RFID, ZigBee [19] and 6LoWPAN [20] are gaining popularity in the wireless sensor networking area, and OPC [21] is well accepted in factory automation.”
Lithe: Lightweight Secure CoAP for the Internet of Things (2013, methodology): “Currently, different protocols such as CoAP [2], 6LoW- PAN [15], the IPv6 Routing Protocol (RPL) [16] The focus of this paper is to enable secure yet efficient communication among IoT devices that utilize the CoAP protocol.”
A Survey on Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks: Challenges and Design Requirements (2017, methodology): “However several studies recently, for example [77], [130], have considered the deployment of an IP-based WSN using different technologies such as 6LoWPAN [131] (IPv6 over Low Power Wireless Area Network) protocol.”
A Survey of IoT-Enabled Cyberattacks: Assessing Attack Paths to Critical Infrastructures and Services (2018, methodology): “Other security issues discussed in [31] include 6LoWPAN [43] security enhancements such”
RPL in a nutshell: A survey (2012, positive): “Since the specification of 6LoWPAN [4], routing has been considered as one of the key issues in 6LoWPAN networks that are worth investigation.”
Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Research: A Review of Current Research Topics (2019, neutral): “6LoWPAN [83]–[85] supports the transmission of IPv6 packets over IEEE 802.”
How low energy is bluetooth low energy? Comparative measurements with ZigBee/802.15.4 (2012, methodology): “The 6LoWPAN [3] working group has worked on speciﬁcations especially for IPv6 functionality over ZigBee networks [4].”
SVELTE: Real-time intrusion detection in the Internet of Things (2013, methodology): “With IPv6 over Low-power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) [1,2] it is possible to connect resource constrained devices, such as sensor nodes, with the global Internet using the standardized compressed IPv6 protocol.”
Standardized Protocol Stack for the Internet of (Important) Things (2013, background): “unknown node positions, high unreliability, and long idle periods during which communications interfaces are turned off to save energy [30], [41] – [44].”
Security for 5G and Beyond (2019, neutral): “4 standard [327], [328], IPv6 over Low-power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN) standard [329], [330], and Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) [331], [332].”
The Progressive Smart Grid System from Both Power and Communications Aspects (2012, background): “The so-called low-power-RF-plus-IPv6 6LoWPAN defined in RFC4919 [115] and RFC4944 [116] with the associated Working Group: routing over low-power and lossy networks (WG-ROLL) formed in 2008 by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has gained much attention nowadays.”
Security for the Internet of Things: A Survey of Existing Protocols and Open Research Issues (2015, methodology): “RFC 4919 [8] discusses the general goals and assumptions of the work performed in the IETF 6LoWPAN working group.”
Security of the Internet of Things: perspectives and challenges (2014, methodology): “6LowPAN [100–106] technology adopts PHY layer and MAC layer of IEEE802.”