January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
524 pages
13h 33m
English
6LoWPAN networks are mesh networks residing on the periphery of larger networks. The topologies are flexible, allowing for ad hoc and disjointed networks without any binding to the internet or other systems, or they can be connected to the backbone or the internet using edge routers. 6LoWPAN networks can be conjoined with multiple edge routers; this is called multi-homing. Additionally, ad-hoc networks can form without requiring an Internet connectivity of an edge router. These topologies are shown below:

An edge router (also known as border router) is necessary for a 6LoWPAN architecture as it has four ...
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