Evaluation and recommendations on IPv6 for the Internet of Things

Sébastien Ziegler, Antonio Skármeta, Peter T. Kirstein, Latif Ladid

2015 · 11 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

This article presents some key achievements and recommendations from the IoT6 European research project on IPv6 exploitation for the Internet of Things (IoT). It highlights the potential of IPv6 to support the integration of a global IoT deployment including legacy systems by overcoming horizontal fragmentation as well as more direct vertical integration between communicating devices and the cloud.