Hi;

I made that IETF98 presentation.  Currently, the maximum frame size that IEEE 
802.15.4 can handle is either 127 octets or 2047 octets.  The 2047 octet limit 
is for Higher Rate 2 Mb/s PHY (802.15.4t), Smart Utility Networks (SUN), 
Television white space (TVWS), railroad communications and control (RCC), and 
Low energy critical infrastructure monitors (LECIM) FSK PHYs and is 127 octets 
for all other PHYs.

Pat

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On 6, Apr2017, at 8:36, Muhammad Akbar <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi

What about IEEE 802.15.12?

I attended a presentation in IETF98, where a person from IEEE mentioned about 
IEEE 802.15.12 with the packet size of 2048 (not sure the exact but its more 
than 1280 MTU), do we need fragmentation then?

Muhammad
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Sent: 06 April 2017 13:34
To: Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
Cc: PWK; Ralph Droms; Thomas Watteyne; [email protected]; [email protected]; Carsten 
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Subject: Re: [6tisch] [6lo] Thomas' review of 
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Pascal Thubert (pthubert) writes:
> IEEE 802.5.4 understood and started addressing those issues in their
> protocols years ago, consider for instance how this is done at PHY
> layer in 802.15.4K LECIM - LP-WAN (cc'ing Pat). In the light of that
> art, the legacy 6LoWPAN technique is shamefully inadequate.

802.15.4k is really only a phy level fragmentation, and the main issue
there is that the max packet size in that PHY is extremely small
(less than 30 octets).

When designing the IEEE std 802.15.9 we checked 4k that and realized
that it is not something that can be used in general case, and thats
why the MAC level fragmentation in the 802.15.9 is using different
method. Fragmentation was needed in the 802.15.9 as KMP payloads do
not fit to the small frames of 802.15.4. This fragmentation method
(and the multiplexing) from the 802.15.9 will most likely be adopted
in the 802.15.12 later...

Btw, the 802.15.9 is now available using the get IEEE 802 program, and
you can download it from

http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.15.9-2016.pdf

The fragmentation wire formats are described in the section 7, and
state matchines are described in section 9.

> My suggestion to the group is to take a holistic view of these
> issues, and redesign or fragment support. This is what my draft
> does.

The 802.15.9 is hop by hop fragmentation, so if you want to be able to
forward fragments, you need to specify your own way of doing that...
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