LPWAN Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) and fragmentation for IPv6 and UDP
draft-ietf-lpwan-ipv6-static-context-hc-07

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lpwan Working Group                                          A. Minaburo
Internet-Draft                                                    Acklio
Intended status: Informational                                L. Toutain
Expires: April 23, 2018                                   IMT-Atlantique
                                                                C. Gomez
                                    Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
                                                        October 20, 2017

  LPWAN Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) and fragmentation for
                              IPv6 and UDP
               draft-ietf-lpwan-ipv6-static-context-hc-07

Abstract

   This document describes a header compression scheme and fragmentation
   functionality for very low bandwidth networks.  These techniques are
   specially tailored for LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Network) networks.

   The Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) offers a great level of
   flexibility when processing the header fields.  SCHC compression is
   based on a common static context stored in a LPWAN device and in the
   network.  Static context means that the stored information does not
   change during the packet transmission.  The context describes the
   field values and keeps information that will not be transmitted
   through the constrained network.

   SCHC must be used for LPWAN networks because it avoids complex
   resynchronization mechanisms, which are incompatible with LPWAN
   characteristics.  And also because in most cases, IPv6/UDP headers
   are reduced to a small identifier called Rule ID.  Eventhough
   sometimes, a SCHC compressed packet will not fit in one L2 PDU, and
   the SCHC fragmentation protocol will be used.  The SCHC fragmentation
   and reassembly mechanism is used in two situations: for SCHC-
   compressed packets that still exceed the L2 PDU size; and for the
   case where the SCHC compression cannot be performed.

   This document describes the SCHC compression/decompression framework
   and applies it to IPv6/UDP headers.  This document also specifies a
   fragmentation and reassembly mechanism that is used to support the
   IPv6 MTU requirement over LPWAN technologies.  Fragmentation is
   mandatory for IPv6 datagrams that, after SCHC compression or when it
   has not been possible to apply such compression, still exceed the L2
   maximum payload size.  Similar solutions for other protocols such as
   CoAP will be described in separate documents.

Minaburo, et al.         Expires April 23, 2018                 [Page 1]
Internet-Draft                 LPWAN SCHC                   October 2017

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   2.  LPWAN Architecture  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   3.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   4.  Static Context Header Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     4.1.  SCHC Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.2.  Rule ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     4.3.  Packet processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     4.4.  Matching operators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     4.5.  Compression Decompression Actions (CDA) . . . . . . . . .  12
       4.5.1.  not-sent CDA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
       4.5.2.  value-sent CDA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
       4.5.3.  mapping-sent  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
       4.5.4.  LSB CDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13