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6TiSCH Wireless Industrial Networks: Determinism Meets IPv6

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In the last 40 years we have witnessed the emergence of the Operational Technology (OT) and the Information Technology (IT) in parallel, each established with its own scope and range of applications; then, the progressive convergence of IT over an IP infrastructure, imprinted by the birth of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Nowadays, we are witnessing the unstoppable evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), and the upcoming integration of OT and IT. The technologies facilitating such OT/IT convergence only recently commenced to take shape. In detail, existing industrial Wireless Sensor Network technologies have demonstrated that the IEEE802.15.4e Timeslotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) effectively enables industrial-grade deterministic properties for control loops with low latency, ultra-low jitter, ultra-low power consumption and a high reliability. This chapter introduces the work recently started at the IETF by the 6TiSCH working group, and which aims at enabling IPv6 over the TSCH mode of the IEEE802.15.4e standard. In particular, 6TiSCH standardizes different mechanisms for allocating link-layer resources and trade off latency and bandwidth with power consumption. Several approaches are supported, based on a combination of centralized and distributed techniques.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    With IEEE802.15.4-compliant radios operating in the 2.4 GHz frequency band, a maximum-length frame of 127 bytes takes about \(4\) ms to transmit; a shorter ACK takes about \(1\) ms. With a \(10\) ms slot (a typical duration), this leaves \(5\) ms to radio turnaround, packet processing and security operations.

  2. 2.

    A broadcast cell is an alias for “a scheduled cell with neighbor address the broadcast address”.

  3. 3.

    This work implies new IPv6 ND proxy operations as illustrated in Sect. 3.6.

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This publication was supported by the FP7 projects IoT6-288445, CALIPSO-288879, RELYONIT-317826 and SWAP-251557, which are partially funded by the European Community. Xavier Vilajosana is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education under Fullbright-BE grant (INF-2010-0319).

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  1. University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Maria Rita Palattella & Thomas Engel

  2. Cisco Systems, Issy Les Moulineaux, France

    Pascal Thubert

  3. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

    Xavier Vilajosana

  4. Linear Technology/Dust Networks Product Group, Hayward, CA, USA

    Thomas Watteyne

  5. University Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China

    Qin Wang

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Palattella, M.R., Thubert, P., Vilajosana, X., Watteyne, T., Wang, Q., Engel, T. (2014). 6TiSCH Wireless Industrial Networks: Determinism Meets IPv6. In: Mukhopadhyay, S. (eds) Internet of Things. Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04223-7_5

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