6LoWPAN Standard
6LoWPAN
6lowpan is an acronym of IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks. 6lowpan is the name of the working group in the internet area of IETF. The 6lowpan group aimed at defining header compression mechanisms that allow IPv6 packets to be sent to and received from over IEEE 802.15-based networks. IPv4 and IPv6 are the work horses for data delivery for local-area networks, metropolitan area networks, and wide-area networks such as the Internet. Likewise, IEEE 802.15.4 devices provide sensing communication-ability in the wireless domain. The inherent natures of the two networks though, is different.
The base specification developed by the 6lowpan IETF group is RFC 4944. The problem statement document is RFC 4919.
Application areas
The target for IP networking for low-power radio communication are the applications that need wireless internet connectivity at lower data rates for devices with very limited form factor. Examples could include, but are not limited to: automation and entertainment applications in home, office and factory environments. Although such applications can be rendered in an autonomous fashion, providing internet connectivity can let the designers offer the same services with untethered value-addition. The header compression mechanisms standardized in RFC4944 can be used to provide header compression of IPv6 packets over such networks.
(Source: Wikipedia.com,6lowpan)
