Asymmetric IPv6 for IoT Networks
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Network Working Group                                           S. Jiang
Internet-Draft                              Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Intended status: Informational                                     G. Li
Expires: December 23, 2019                           Huawei Technologies
                                                            B. Carpenter
                                                       Univ. of Auckland
                                                           June 21, 2019

                    Asymmetric IPv6 for IoT Networks
                     draft-jiang-asymmetric-ipv6-01

Abstract

   This document describes a new approach to IPv6 header compression for
   use in scenarios where minimizing packet size is crucial but routing
   performance must be maximised.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Proposed Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Address Transformation at the Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   4.  Routing without Decompression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   5.  Address Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   6.  Compatibility with Existing Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   8.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   9.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   Appendix A.  Change log [RFC Editor: Please remove] . . . . . . .   8
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8

1.  Introduction

   The large address space of IPv6 is essential for the massive
   expansion of the network edge that will be caused by "Internet of
   Things (IoT)" technology over low-power or 5G links.  However, the
   size of a raw IPv6 packet header causes difficulty due to the small
   maximum transmission units (MTU) allowed by typical low-power, low-
   cost link layers.  For 5G, this aspect is discussed in
   [I-D.ietf-dmm-5g-uplane-analysis].  Thus header compression,
   including address compression, is an important issue.  This decreases
   the size of raw packets, but compressed IP addresses are not
   routeable except by decompressing them completely in every forwarding
   node.  There are two issues here.  The first is the extra computation
   resource needed for compressing or decompressing in constrained IoT
   nodes.  The second is that full-length IPv6 routing will consume more
   memory to store routing tables and packet queues.  Such resource
   consumption is very undesirable in constrained nodes with limited
   storage, CPU power, and battery capacity.

   To mitigate these issues, here we propose a solution enabling the
   shortening of IPv6 addresses inside packets, and the routing of
   packets according to short addresses, without needing a decompression
   step.  Considering that the scale and size of edge networks may vary
   widely, different lengths of short address can be used in different
   domains.

   This work is distinct from previous 6LoWPAN work on address
   compression [RFC6282] [RFC7400].  Although those solutions tackle the
   problem of small MTU size, they do not address the problem of
   decompression overhead.

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