1. Behcet Sarikaya Futurewei Technologies, Inc. sarikaya@ieee.org
Serial Forwarding
Behcet Sarikaya
Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

2. 6lowpan IEEE 802.15.4 based wireless sensor networks
Tiny OS is now running on Zigbee radios
Current approach for Internet connectivity
Tiny OS uses application based IPv4 interconnection called serial forwarder
TCP based socket application

3. SFv4 Architecture Serial forwarder 802.15.4 Sensor node Telos Stargate
Network
Serial
forwarder
Macronode
Client Data
Micronode
Browsing/processing
Gateway
On-site
node
data center
Transit Network
Internet
In-network
data caching
Sensor node
Telos
Stargate

4. SFv6 Architecture Client Data Browsing/processing Internet In-network
data caching
RFD
FFD

5. Next Steps Generalize the solution as a protocol IPv6 stack on FFDs
TinyOS or similar on RFDs
Other ideas?