Article | REF: IN132 V1

Dynamic routing and sensor networks

Author: Christian JACQUENET

Publication date: February 10, 2011

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2. IPv6, a unifying protocol

Sensor networks are a natural component of the Internet of Things. As such, the IP protocol is the federating element that conditions the massive deployment of machine-to-machine communication services.

And version 6 of the IP protocol ( ) is undoubtedly the keystone.

The IPv6 protocol was designed in the mid-1990s to meet two needs:

  • improve traffic routing times on the Internet ;

  • better control the growth of routing tables maintained by Internet routers.

The response to the first need was to...

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