MXS talks - Enabling IPv6 over LPWAN technologies - Dr Carles Gómez

El próximo lunes 21 de mayo a las 17:30h, en el aula 022B de la EETAC, tendrá lugar una charla, en el marco de las actividades de la asignatura "Mobilitat, Xarxes i Serveis", pero abierta a toda la comunidad universitaria.

Title: Enabling IPv6 over LPWAN technologies

Abstract: Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technologies, such as LoRaWAN, Sigfox or NB-IoT, have recently emerged as a promising networking solution for IoT applications.  LPWAN technologies achieve a long range (up to tens of kilometers), while allowing multiyear operation for battery-enabled devices such as sensors. This characteristic is fundamental to offer reduced IoT infrastructure deployment and management cost, as few LPWAN base stations can cover the devices of a whole city. 4 billion LPWAN devices are envisaged by 2025, and the IETF has recently focused on providing IPv6 support over LPWAN technologies for connecting IoT devices to the Internet. However, LPWAN technologies are also severely constrained in terms of bit rate, message rate, and frame payload size, therefore IPv6 over LPWAN is even more challenging than previous similar efforts such as 6LoWPAN or 6Lo. This talk overviews the functionality currently being standardized at the IETF to support IPv6 over LPWAN.

Bio: Dr. Carles Gómez is Associate Professor at Escola d’Enginyeria de Telecomunicació i Aeroespacial de Castelldefels (EETAC) of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He is a member of the Network Engineering Department , and of the Wireless Networks Group (WNG). His current main research interest is the Internet of Things (IoT). He has been an active IETF member for a decade, contributing to IoT standards by coauthoring several RFCs and Internet Drafts.