Transmission of IPv6 Packets over PLC Networks
draft-ietf-6lo-plc-04
6Lo Working Group J. Hou
Internet-Draft B. Liu
Intended status: Standards Track Huawei Technologies
Expires: December 5, 2020 Y-G. Hong
ETRI
X. Tang
SGEPRI
C. Perkins
June 3, 2020
Transmission of IPv6 Packets over PLC Networks
draft-ietf-6lo-plc-04
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.
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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 . . . . . . . 12
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7. Security Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
8. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1. Introduction
The idea of using power lines for both electricity supply and
communication can be traced back to the beginning of the last
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