OAM for LPWAN using Static Context Header Compression (SCHC)
draft-barthel-lpwan-oam-schc-05
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| Authors | Dominique Barthel , Laurent Toutain , Arunprabhu Kandasamy , Diego Roberto Dujovne , Juan-Carlos Zúñiga | ||
| Last updated | 2023-06-27 | ||
| Replaces | draft-barthel-oam-schc | ||
| Replaced by | draft-barthel-schc-oam-schc | ||
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Abstract
This document describes ICMPv6 compression with SCHC and how basic OAM is performed on Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) by compressing ICMPv6/IPv6 headers and by protecting the LPWAN network and the Device from undesirable ICMPv6 traffic. With IP protocols now generalizing to constrained networks, users expect to be able to Operate, Administer and Maintain them with the familiar tools and protocols they already use on less constrained networks. OAM uses specific messages sent into the data plane to measure some parameters of a network. Most of the time, no explicit values are sent is these messages. Network parameters are obtained from the analysis of these specific messages. This can be used: * To detect if a host is up or down. * To measure the RTT and its variation over time. * To learn the path used by packets to reach a destination. OAM in LPWAN is a little bit trickier since the bandwidth is limited and extra traffic added by OAM can introduce perturbation on regular transmission. Three main scenarios are investigated: * OAM reachability messages coming from internet. In that case, the SCHC core should act as a proxy and handle specifically the OAM traffic. * OAM messages initiated by LPWAN devices: They can be anticipated by the core SCHC. * OAM error messages coming from internet. In that case, the SCHC core may forward a compressed version to the device. The primitive functionalities of OAM are achieved with the ICMPv6 protocol. ICMPv6 defines messages that inform the source of IPv6 packets of errors during packet delivery. It also defines the Echo Request/ Reply messages that are used for basic network troubleshooting (ping command). ICMPv6 messages are transported on IPv6. This document also introduces the notion of actions in a SCHC rule, to perform locally some operations.
Authors
Dominique Barthel
Laurent Toutain
Arunprabhu Kandasamy
Diego Roberto Dujovne
Juan-Carlos Zúñiga
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