sajjad akbar <[email protected]> wrote:
    > Compression mechanism is still expensive for these low power networks,
    > Do you think its affordable trade off?

This is not a generic compression mechanism.  It might look like:
     IID = truncate-lower-61-bits(PRF(L2Key|PANID|16-bits-from-IPHC))

Where PRF is ideally some AES based thing that leverages the hardware.
The 16-bits-from-IPHC is essentially assigned in the same way as short
addresses are otherwise  (by DHCPv6, by taking the last-2-bytes of EUI-64, or
brute force).

Maybe it needs to be reverseable: so that senders can compress IIDs in
destination addresses that they send to.  But I think that maybe it's enough
if it's cachable.  So that when a node sees the 16-bits, it caches the
resulting IID, and can then use that mapping the other way.  6LRs could
probably put the 16-bits as index to routing entry and avoid any
expansion/compression cycle.


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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
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