Interoperability of LoWPANs Based on the IEEE 802.15.4 Standard through IPV6
The role and the increasing demand for wireless communications industry in recent years has increase the design of standards and the development of technologies which are appropriate to LoWPAN networks. The industry and researchers has now spread beyond the office and home to include new environments such as factories, hospitals, smart metering, and agriculture. This trend of deploying LoWPAN and their connectivity to the Internet is in line with the achievement of the concept of Internet of Things. The aim of this paper is to present two major LoWPAN technology, namely the Zigbee and 6LoWPAN, to describe theirs protocols and architectures, and to explore the possibility of interconnecting the 6LoWPAN and Zigbee through IPv6 in order to make them interoperable and seamless for the end user, so it gives an idea about the Internet of Things over IPv6.
Keywords: IEEE 802.15.4, LoWPAN, 6LoWPAN, ZigBee, Internet of Things, Gateway
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