6LoWPAN

Devices that take advantage of energy-harvesting must perform their tasks in the shortest time possible, which means that their transmitted messages must be as small as possible. This requirement has implications for protocol design. And it is one of the reasons why 6LoWPAN (short for IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks) has been adopted by ARM (Sensinode) and Cisco (ArchRock). 6LoWPAN provides encapsulation and header compression mechanisms that allow for briefer transmission times.''

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