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What are the different standards followed in AD6LoWPAN?

Original Question: What are the different standards followed in AD6LoWPAN? by NagarjunaG

What are the different standards followed in AD6LoWPAN, including the features supported? Can you list the all the RFC's used?


Verified Answer: RE: What are the different standards followed in AD6LoWPAN? by NagarjunaG

A comprehensive list of all the standards and features supported in the AD6LoWPAN solution is as shown below in the PICS (Protocol Implementation Compliance Statement). The respective sections referenced in the table will have more details on the features and standards.

S.No.

Feature (PICS)

Test Spec Reference

 

6LoWPAN specification

RFC4944

 

Addressing modes

3

2

64 bit EUI addressing

 

3

Multicast addressing

 

 

Adaptation layer and Frame format

 

4

Dispatch header

  1. 5.1

6

Fragmentation

  1. 5.3

7

Stateless Address Autoconfiguration

6

8

Ipv6 Link local address

7

9

Ipv6 Global address

 

10

Header compression - HC1

 

11

UDP next header compression

 

 

Header compression (RFC 6282)

RFC 6282

13

LoWPAN_IPHC

  1. 3.1

14

LoWPAN header encoding

  1. 3.2

15

LoWPAN UDP next header compression

  1. 4.3

16

IPv6 Extension Header Compression

  1. 4.2

 

Ipv6 - Network layer

RFC 2468

17

Ipv6 header format

 

18

extension headers

 

 

ICMPv6 - Network layer

RFC 4443

21

ICMPv6 header format

 

22

Checksum calculation

 

23

ICMPv6 Error Messages

 

24

ICMPv6 informal messages (ECHO Request and reply)

 

 

ND optimization IPv6 - Network layer

draft-ietf-6lowpan-nd-17

 

ND options and messages

 

26

Address Registration option

 

27

6LoWPAN Context option

 

28

Authorative Border Router option

 

 

Host Behavior

 

30

Sending a Router Solicitation

  1. 5.3

31

Processing a Router Advertisement

  1. 5.4

33

Storing Contexts

  1. 5.4.2

34

Maintaining Prefix and Context Information

  1. 5.4.3

35

Registration and Neighbor Unreachability Detection.

  1. 5.5

 

Router Behavior for 6LR and 6LBR

 

36

Processing a Router Solicitation

  1. 6.3

38

Processing a Neighbor Solicitation

  1. 6.5

 

Optional Behavior

 

39

Multi-hop Prefix and Context Distribution

  1. 8.1

 

RPL - Routing protocol

RFC 6550

41

Upward Routes and DODAG Construction

  1. 3.2

42

Traffic flows

4

43

RPL instance

5

 

ICMPv6 RPL Control Message

6

44

DIS messages

 

45

DIO messages

 

46

DAO messages

 

47

DAO-Ack  messages

 

49

RPL control message options

  1. 6.7

50

DODAG Global repair

 

51

DODAG local repair

 

52

Trickle timer for DIO

  1. 8.3

53

Downward route establishment

9

58

packet forwarding and loop avoidance

11

60

of0-etx

 

62

source routing header

6man-rpl-routing-header-03

 

Transport layer

 

63

UDP

RFC 768


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