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From: Jean Philippe Vasseur (jvasseur)
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:19 PM
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Subject: [RSN] Here is the new RL2N Proposed Working Charter
Dear all,
As promised, here is the new proposed Working Group, which reflects the
number of comments/suggestions that we received, the pre-WG consensus, ...
Thanks to Dave Ward (RTD AD) for his input.
Proposed RL2N WG Charter
Description of Working Group
L2Ns (Low power and Lossy networks) are typically composed of many embedded
devices with limited power, memory, and processing resources interconnected
by a variety of wireless links, such as IEEE 802.15.4, Bluetooth, Low Power
WiFi.
L2Ns are transitioning to an end-to-end IP-based solution to avoid the
problems of non-interoperable networks interconnected by protocol
translation gateways and proxies. In addition, L2Ns have specific routing
requirements that are not currently met by existing routing protocols, such
as OSPF, IS-IS, AODV, and OLSR. L2N path selection must be designed to take
into consideration the specific power, capabilities, attributes and
functional characteristics of the links and nodes in the network.
There is a wide scope of application areas for L2Ns, including industrial
monitoring, building automation (HVAC, lighting/access control), connected
home, healthcare, environmental monitoring, agricultural, smart cities,
logistics, assets tracking, and refrigeration. The L2N WG will focus on
routing solutions for a subset of these deployment scenarios, namely
industrial, connected home/building and urban applications. The Working
Group will determine the routing requirements for these scenarios.
The Working Group will provide a routing framework for these application
scenarios that provides high reliability in the presence of time varying
loss characteristics and connectivity while permitting low-power operation
with very modest memory and CPU pressure.
The Working Group will pay a particular attention to routing security and
manageability (e.g self managing/configuration) issues, which are
particularly critical for L2Ns.
Work Items:
- Produce use cases documents for Industrial, Connected Home, Building and
urban application networks. Each document will describe the use case and the
associated routing protocol requirements. The documents will progress in
collaboration with the 6lowpan Working Group (INT area).
- Survey the applicability of existing protocols to L2Ns. The aim of this
document will be to analyze the scaling and characteristics of existing
protocols and identify whether or not they meet the routing requirements of
the L2Ns applications identified above. Existing IGPs, MANET, NEMO, DTN
routing protocols will be part of evaluation.
- Specification of routing metrics used in path calculation. This includes
static and dynamic link/nodes attributes required for routing in L2Ns.
- Provide an architectural framework for routing and path selection at Layer
3 (Routing for L2N Architecture)
* Decide whether the L2Ns routing protocol require a distributed,
centralized path computation models or both.
* Decide whether the L2N routing protocol requires a hierarchical routing
approach.
- Produce a security framework for routing in L2Ns.
Goals And Milestones:
April 2008 Submit Use case/Routing requirements for Industrial, Connected
Home, Building and Urban networks applications to the IESG to be considered
as an Informational RFC.
August 2008: Submit Routing metrics for L2Ns document to the IESG to be
considered as an Informational RFC.
September 2008: Submit first draft of the Routing for L2Ns Architecture
document (summary of requirements, path computation model,
flat/hierarchy,Š).
November 2008: Submit Protocol Survey to the IESG to be considered as an
Informational RFC.
January 2009 Submit Security Framework for L2Ns to the IESG to be considered
as an Informational RFC
February 2009: Submit the Routing for L2Ns Architecture document (summary
of requirements, metrics and attributes, path selection model) to the IESG
as an Informational RFC.
March 2009: Recharter.
Please comment/suggest/...
See you in Vancouver.
JP and David.
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