RFC 8931: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Selective Fragment Recovery

This document updates RFC 4944 with a protocol that forwards individual fragments across a route-over mesh and recovers them end to end, with congestion…

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Outgoing relationships (26 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 4944: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 Networks
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 6282: Compression Format for IPv6 Datagrams over IEEE 802.15.4-Based Networks
Normative reference — RFC 6298: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Normative reference — RFC 4919: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs): Overview, Assumptions, Problem Statement, and Goals
Normative reference — RFC 8138: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Routing Header
Normative reference — RFC 6606: Problem Statement and Requirements for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Routing
Normative reference — RFC 8025: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Paging Dispatch
Normative reference — RFC 8930: On Forwarding 6LoWPAN Fragments over a Multi-Hop IPv6 Network
Informative reference — RFC 3031: Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Informative reference — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Informative reference — RFC 2914: Congestion Control Principles
Informative reference — RFC 8085: UDP Usage Guidelines
Informative reference — RFC 6550: RPL: IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks
Informative reference — RFC 8201: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
Informative reference — RFC 7567: IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue Management
Informative reference — RFC 6554: An IPv6 Routing Header for Source Routes with the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL)
Informative reference — RFC 4963: IPv4 Reassembly Errors at High Data Rates
Informative reference — RFC 5033: Specifying New Congestion Control Algorithms
Informative reference — RFC 8900: IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile
Informative reference — RFC 6552: Objective Function Zero for the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL)
Informative reference — RFC 8087: The Benefits of Using Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
Informative reference — RFC 7554: Using IEEE 802.15.4e Time-Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) in the Internet of Things (IoT): Problem Statement

Incoming relationships (4 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9030: An Architecture for IPv6 over the Time-Slotted Channel Hopping Mode of IEEE 802.15.4 (6TiSCH)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8930: On Forwarding 6LoWPAN Fragments over a Multi-Hop IPv6 Network
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9914: Root-Initiated Routing State in the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9006: TCP Usage Guidance in the Internet of Things (IoT)