ACCRA GHANA,
OUTLINE
Objectives
IoT Concept and Vision
IoT Architecture and Composition
Introduction to the IPv6 and the IoT
Overview of LoWPANs
Use of IP on LoWPANs
6LoWPAN and other LLN Routing protocols
Evolving networking techniques
OBJECTIVES
Have a fair overview of the IoT technology.
Understand why IPv6 is among the drivers of IoT.
Understand the essence of IPv6 migration & why its widely adopted.
Know the standards/protocols for IoT devices communications.
Know about other evolving networking techniques.
- Wikipedia
The IoT can be regarded as an extension of existing interaction between people and
applications through a new dimension of Things for communication and integration.
To create an intelligent world where the physical, the digital and the virtual
are converging to create smart environments that provide more intelligence
to the energy, health, transport, cities, industry, buildings and many other
areas of our daily lives.
AFRINIC INRM & IPv6 Workshop, August 2016, Accra - Ghana
IOT ARCHITECTURE
Build on top of scalable and mature
protocols such as IPv6, 6LoWPAN and
IEEE 802.15.4 wireless technologies.
IoT drivers:
IOT COMPOSITION
Internet :
-
Network: (PAN/LAN/MAN/WAN)
Things
memory, bandwidth, etc. as such will use devices like Rasberry Pi, Zorletia mote,
etc.
Data : Big Data of about 100 billions of bytes.
OVERVIEW OF LOWPANS
The IoT devices are very resource constrained (low power, cost, memory, etc.) and will
require communication over Low Power & Lossy Networks (LLNs).
Low Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (LoWPANs): Is a simple low throughput
wireless network comprising typically of short range, low cost & low power devices. Its
topology is mostly a Star, Mesh or a combination of the two.
USE OF IP ON LOWPANS
The IP technology provides the following benefits to LoWPANs:
IP devices are easily configurable and can readily be connected to other IPbased networks without intermediate gateways or proxies.
WHY IPV6?
In IoT, the use of IPv6 networking is widely adopted due to the advantages it offers in
LLNs:
Billions of devices in IoT implies many devices per person as such more unique
addresses are required to identify these devices.
The v6 allows for huge amount of addresses (2^128 eqv. 340 trillions) and provides
for easy network parameters auto-configuration [SLAAC - Stateless Address
Autoconfiguration].
be compressed into
6LOWPAN
6LoWPAN is the standard to have IPv6
NDN (Named Data Networking): it employs ICN to address IoT challenges and
focuses on content-centric.
CONCLUSIONS
IP is fundamental to IoT development in that it is transparent, an open-source
NB: The IoT does not absolutely mandate IPv6, but for it to be useful or usable,
IPv6 is very much preferred.(Mokubai, a contributor to IoT discussions)
REFERENCES
https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/62/slides/6lowpan-3/6lowpan-4.ppt ICN
IoT in five days GitHub repository1
IoT-From Research and Innovation to Market Deployment_IERC.pdf
wireless.ictp.it/school_2016
Is the IoT speeding up the need for IPv6 deployment?
The case for IPv6 as an enabler of the IoT
3 reasons why IPv6 is important to the IoT.
THANK YOU
QUESTIONS
AND
CONTRIBUTIONS
Ivy Hoetu (Mrs.)
itafram@gmail.com
Ivy.Hoetu@nca.org.gh