Geographical topology-enabled IPv6 addressing framework for connected Low Power Networks

The vision behind the Internet of Things (IoT) is that any things that need communications, are universally connected, and becoming an integral part of the future Internet. However, the existing of Low Power Networks (LPN) consisting of battery-powered nodes poses great challenge for traditional addressing and routing protocols. The paper proposes a geographical topology-enabled IPv6 addressing framework (gIPv6), which define a geographical IPv6 adaption layer for enabling the interconnection between Lower power networks and the global IPv6 Internet at any access point. IPv6 addresses for LPNs are generated based on the short format of geographical location information, so the proposed scheme can potentially extended IPv6 to various networking scenarios with energy restriction and resource limitations.