Re: [lp-wan] Review of draft-ietf-lpwan-overview-06.txt

Behcet Sarikaya <sarikaya2012@gmail.com> Fri, 28 July 2017 22:17 UTC

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More comments:
p.13 & p.24
P-GW is packet data network gateway
it is not application server, the classification in Fig. 8 seems to be
correct.

Maybe more comments on Section 4 later on.



On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Behcet Sarikaya <sarikaya2012@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here are my comments after reading the overview document:
> page 4.
> LoRaWAN acronym?
> page 8.
> NwkID in Table 3, is it supposed to be NetID?
> p.9
> DevEUI and AppEUI
> I think they refer to the device and the application MAC addresses
> in 64-bits
> p. 13
> The 3GPP radio protocol architecture is illustration in Figure 4
> s/illustration/illustrated
>
> control plane protocol stack and data plane protocol stack section
> numbering is missing
> p.14
> EPC not defined
> Fig. 1, Fig. 7 refer to non-3GPP architectures which means LoRaWAN, SIGFOX
> and Wi-SUN are basically IEEE 802.15.4 type of technologies?
>
> Regarding battery life, referred to on Page 11 for NB-IoT and p.15 for
> SIGFOX, p.21 for Wi_SUN,
> if these technologies are used to connect devices like refrigerators which
> are almost always powered up, why long term battery life is an issue?
> On the other hand the use on the pets is a different issue.
>
> Regards,
>
> Behcet
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 2:46 AM, <internet-drafts@ietf.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>> directories.
>> This draft is a work item of the IPv6 over Low Power Wide-Area Networks
>> WG of the IETF.
>>
>>         Title           : LPWAN Overview
>>         Author          : Stephen Farrell
>>         Filename        : draft-ietf-lpwan-overview-06.txt
>>         Pages           : 41
>>         Date            : 2017-07-21
>>
>> Abstract:
>>    Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) are wireless technologies with
>>    characteristics such as large coverage areas, low bandwidth, possibly
>>    very small packet and application layer data sizes and long battery
>>    life operation.  This memo is an informational overview of the set of
>>    LPWAN technologies being considered in the IETF and of the gaps that
>>    exist between the needs of those technologies and the goal of running
>>    IP in LPWANs.
>>
>>
>> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lpwan-overview/
>>
>> There are also htmlized versions available at:
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-lpwan-overview-06
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-lpwan-overview-06
>>
>> A diff from the previous version is available at:
>> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-lpwan-overview-06
>>
>>
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