Skip to main content

Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.11p Networks
draft-petrescu-ipv6-over-80211p-02

The information below is for an old version of the document.
Document Type
This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Replaced".
Expired & archived
Authors Alexandre Petrescu , Pierre Pfister , Nabil Benamar , Tim Leinmueller
Last updated 2014-12-18 (Latest revision 2014-06-16)
Replaced by draft-ietf-ipwave-ipv6-over-80211ocb, draft-ietf-ipwave-ipv6-over-80211ocb, draft-ietf-ipwave-ipv6-over-80211ocb, draft-ietf-ipwave-ipv6-over-80211ocb, draft-ietf-ipwave-ipv6-over-80211ocb, RFC 8691
RFC stream (None)
Formats
Stream Stream state (No stream defined)
Consensus boilerplate Unknown
RFC Editor Note (None)
IESG IESG state Expired
Telechat date (None)
Responsible AD (None)
Send notices to (None)

This Internet-Draft is no longer active. A copy of the expired Internet-Draft is available in these formats:

Abstract

In order to transmit IPv6 packets on IEEE 802.11p networks there is a need to define a few parameters such as the recommended Maximum Transmission Unit size, the header format preceding the IPv6 base header, the Type value within it, and others. This document describes these parameters for IPv6 and IEEE 802.11p networks; it portrays the layering of IPv6 on 802.11p similarly to other known 802.11 and Ethernet layers, by using an existing Ethernet Adaptation Layer. In addition, the document attempts to list what is different in 802.11p compared to more 'traditional' 802.11a/b/g/n layers, layers over which IPv6 protocols run ok. Most notably, the operation outside the context of a BSS (OCB) has impact on IPv6 handover behaviour and on IPv6 security. An example of an IPv6 packet captured while transmitted over an IEEE 802.11p link is given.

Authors

Alexandre Petrescu
Pierre Pfister
Nabil Benamar
Tim Leinmueller

(Note: The e-mail addresses provided for the authors of this Internet-Draft may no longer be valid.)