Re: [Roll] [6tisch] Support of flow label to carry the RPL information in data packets

+1

Ines

2014-04-15 21:19 GMT-03:00 Qin Wang <qinwang6top@yahoo.com>:

> +1
>
> Qin
>   On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 1:47 AM, Prof. Diego Dujovne <
> diego.dujovne@mail.udp.cl> wrote:
>  +1 !
>
>
> 2014-04-15 12:25 GMT-03:00 Tom Phinney <tom.phinney@cox.net>:
>
>  +1 for sure. The flow label has always been the preferable method for me,
> and I suspect for others with knowledge of how it is used in ISA100.11a.
> ===
>
> On 2014.04.15 07:25, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote:
>
>  Dear all:
>
> As some of you remember, the RPL specification has changed over time WRT
> to the location of the information that RPL places in the data packets. We
> started with the flow label but these were the days when what became RFC
> 6437 was being defined at 6MAN, so we shied away and defined the HbH
> technique that is now specified as RFC 6553.
>
> We’ll note that the RPL option defined in RFC 6553 takes 6 octets, and
> with the HbH hdr we end up with 8 extra octets. An extra IP-in-IP
> encapsulation is required on top of that unless both endpoints are in the
> same RPL domain. All this overhead may be acceptable when power is
> available and the PHY allows for larger frames, but in traditional
> battery-operated 15.4 with ~ 80 bytes usable per frame, my experience from
> integrating 6LoWPAN HC with ISA100.11a says that all these extra bytes will
> be on the way of the 6TiSCH adoption.
>
> Still, both RFC 6550 and RFC 6552 are designed to allow for an alternate
> technique and in particular for the use of the flow label, as is elaborated
> in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thubert-roll-flow-label-02 . Using
> the flow label reduces the cost of the RPL information dramatically, down
> to a level that is probably acceptable for the target SDOs.
>
> So my plan for now is to move the flow label draft to 6MAN and prepare for
> a hot season, and I’m looking for support from both 6TiSCH and ROLL to back
> me up from the start.  Yes, you can help!
>
> Please +1 if you agree we need this work to happen, and/or provide any
> suggestion.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pascal
>
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