Industrial Communication Technology Handbook, 2nd Edition

38IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN) and Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)

Guido Moritz

SIV AG

Frank Golatowski

University of Rostock

1. 38.1 Introduction

2. 38.2 IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks—6LoWPAN

   1. Introducing IEEE 802.15.4

   2. Introducing 6LoWPAN

   3. Compression

   4. Fragmentation

   5. Neighbor Discovery

   6. Routing

   7. Closing Remarks

3. 38.3 Constrained Application Protocol

   1. Introducing CoAP

   2. CoAP/HTTP Proxy and Caching

   3. CoAP Enhancements to Binary HTTP

4. 38.4 Related Work

5. 38.5 Conclusion

6. References

38.1 Introduction

In the past decade, a great deal of research has been conducted in the field of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). One important part of a WSN node is its communication interface. In the early days of WSN, ...