@techreport{thubert-lowpan-simple-fragment-recovery-00, number = {draft-thubert-lowpan-simple-fragment-recovery-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thubert-lowpan-simple-fragment-recovery/00/}, author = {Pascal Thubert}, title = {{LoWPAN simple fragment Recovery}}, pagetotal = 10, year = 2008, month = feb, day = 7, abstract = {Considering that 6LoWPAN packets can be as large as 2K bytes and that an 802.15.4 frame with security will carry in the order of 80 bytes of effective payload, a packet might end up fragmented into as many as 25 fragments at the 6LoWPAN shim layer. If a single one of those fragments is lost in transmission, all fragments must be resent, further contributing to the congestion that might have caused the initial packet loss. This draft introduces a simple protocol to recover individual fragments between 6LoWPAN endpoints.}, }