Design Considerations for Low Power Internet Protocols

Hudson Ayers; Paul Crews; Hubert Teo; Conor McAvity; Amit Levy; Philip Levis

doi:10.1109/DCOSS49796.2020.00027

Design Considerations for Low Power Internet Protocols

Hudson Ayers, Paul Crews, Hubert Teo, Conor McAvity, Amit Levy, Philip Levis

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Abstract

Low-power wireless networks provide IPv6 connectivity through 6LoWPAN, a set of standards to aggressively compress IPv6 packets over small maximum transfer unit (MTU) links such as 802.15.4.The entire purpose of IP was to interconnect different networks, but we find that different 6LoWPAN implementations fail to reliably communicate with one another. These failures are due to stacks implementing different subsets of the standard out of concern for code size. We argue that this failure stems from 6LoWPAN's design, not implementation, and is due to applying traditional Internet protocol design principles to low-power networks.We propose three design principles for Internet protocols on low-power networks, designed to prevent similar failures in the future. These principles are based around the importance of providing flexible tradeoffs between code size and energy efficiency. We apply these principles to 6LoWPAN and show that the modified protocol provides a wide range of implementation strategies while allowing implementations with different strategies to reliably communicate.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	103-111
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728143514
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/DCOSS49796.2020.00027
State	Published - May 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Jun 15 2020 → Jun 17 2020

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Name	Proceedings - 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020

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Conference	16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	6/15/20 → 6/17/20

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Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture
Information Systems and Management
Instrumentation

Keywords

Embedded Systems
Interoperability
IoT

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Ayers, H., Crews, P., Teo, H., McAvity, C., Levy, A., & Levis, P. (2020). Design Considerations for Low Power Internet Protocols. In Proceedings - 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020 (pp. 103-111). Article 9183440 (Proceedings - 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/DCOSS49796.2020.00027

Ayers, Hudson ; Crews, Paul ; Teo, Hubert et al. / Design Considerations for Low Power Internet Protocols. Proceedings - 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020. pp. 103-111 (Proceedings - 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020).

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Ayers, H, Crews, P, Teo, H, McAvity, C, Levy, A & Levis, P 2020, Design Considerations for Low Power Internet Protocols. in Proceedings - 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020., 9183440, Proceedings - 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 103-111, 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020, Virtual, Online, United States, 6/15/20. https://doi.org/10.1109/DCOSS49796.2020.00027

Design Considerations for Low Power Internet Protocols. / Ayers, Hudson; Crews, Paul; Teo, Hubert et al.
Proceedings - 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020. p. 103-111 9183440 (Proceedings - 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020).

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Ayers H, Crews P, Teo H, McAvity C, Levy A, Levis P. Design Considerations for Low Power Internet Protocols. In Proceedings - 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2020. p. 103-111. 9183440. (Proceedings - 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020). doi: 10.1109/DCOSS49796.2020.00027

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