Transmission of IPv6 Packets over PLC Networks
draft-ietf-6lo-plc-05
Document | Type | Active Internet-Draft (6lo WG) | |
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Authors | Jianqiang Hou , Bing Liu , Yong-Geun Hong , Xiaojun Tang , Charles Perkins | ||
Last updated | 2021-02-01 (latest revision 2020-10-28) | ||
Replaces | draft-hou-6lo-plc | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Intended RFC status | Proposed Standard | ||
Formats | plain text pdf htmlized (tools) htmlized bibtex | ||
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Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Carles Gomez | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2021-01-05) | ||
IESG | IESG state | In Last Call (ends 2021-02-15) | |
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Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Erik Kline | ||
Send notices to | Carles Gomez <carlesgo@entel.upc.edu> | ||
IANA | IANA review state | IANA - Review Needed |
6Lo Working Group J. Hou Internet-Draft B. Liu Intended status: Standards Track Huawei Technologies Expires: May 1, 2021 Y-G. Hong ETRI X. Tang SGEPRI C. Perkins October 28, 2020 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over PLC Networks draft-ietf-6lo-plc-05 Abstract Power Line Communication (PLC), namely using the electric-power lines for indoor and outdoor communications, has been widely applied to support Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), especially smart meters for electricity. The inherent advantage of existing electricity infrastructure facilitates the expansion of PLC deployments, and moreover, a wide variety of accessible devices raises the potential demand of IPv6 for future applications. This document describes how IPv6 packets are transported over constrained PLC networks, such as ITU-T G.9903, IEEE 1901.1 and IEEE 1901.2. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on May 1, 2021. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2020 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. Hou, et al. Expires May 1, 2021 [Page 1] Internet-Draft IPv6 over PLC October 2020 This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Requirements Notation and Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Overview of PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1. Protocol Stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2. Addressing Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.3. Maximum Transmission Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.4. Routing Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4. IPv6 over PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.1. Stateless Address Autoconfiguration . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.2. IPv6 Link Local Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.3. Unicast Address Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.3.1. Unicast Address Mapping for IEEE 1901.1 . . . . . . . 9 4.3.2. Unicast Address Mapping for IEEE 1901.2 and ITU-T G.9903 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.4. Neighbor Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.5. Header Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4.6. Fragmentation and Reassembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5. Internet Connectivity Scenarios and Topologies . . . . . . . 13 6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 7. Security Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 8. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 1. Introduction The idea of using power lines for both electricity supply and communication can be traced back to the beginning of the lastShow full document text