Embedded Connectivity for the
Internet of Things
The Necessity of IPv6
Embedded Connectivity for the
Internet of Things
The Necessity of IPv6
What and Why
Embedded Connectivity for the
Internet of Things
The Necessity of IPv6
What?
Embedded Connectivity for the Internet
of Things
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Internet of things
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Embedded Connectivity
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Necessity of IPv6
“The Internet of Things refers to uniquely
identifiable objects and their virtual
representations in an Internet-like structure.”Kevin
Ashton
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Uniquely Identifiable
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Virtual Representation
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Internet-like structure
Embedded Connectivity
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“10 billion connected devices today”ABI Research
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“30 billion connected devices 2020”ABI Research
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TCP/IP
The Necessity of IPv6
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4.3 billion addresses in IPv4 (32 bit)
3.4 duodecillion (thousand billion billion billion billion)
addresses in IPv6 (128 bit)
NAT and PAT
Embedded Connectivity for the
Internet of Things
The Necessity of IPv6
Why?
Connectivity
Connectivity
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Email, Web browsing
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Social Networking
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CORBA, RMI, JMS, ...
Connectivity
Tomorrow
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Faster
Higher bandwidth
More pervasive
Lower latency
Example
Embedded Connectivity for the
Internet of Things
IPv6 is a means to create an easy distributed system
▪ Scalable
▪ Maintainable
▪ Extendable
Distributed Event Based Systems (ISBN 978-3-540-32653-3)
Embedded Connectivity for the
Internet of Things
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IPv6 Basics
IPv6 Advanced
Quality of Service
See a Micro-controller running IPv6