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Title : Motivation for SIP as an application protocol for 6lowpan devices
Author(s) : A. Roychowdhury, S. Gouran
Filename : draft-roychowdhury-6lowappsip-00.txt
Pages : 10
Date : 2009-10-18
The Smart Grid [8] initiative is an effort in modernization of the
electricity grid using communication technology with the primary
goals of reducing energy consumption, reducing cost (utilities and
consumers), increasing reliability and the creation of new services
for all participants in the value chain. The core focus of this
initiative is the specification of a 'Communications Overlay' network
which can help facilitate intelligent communication (discovery,
session establishment, routing, addressing to name a few) between
various nodes of the heterogeneous Smart Grid network.
Roychowdhury
Expires - April 2010
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Motivation for SIP as an application protocol for 6lowpan devices
One of the 'network segments' of the Smart Grid network is the Home
Area Network (HAN) and how residential and/or commercial devices
(such as TV, washing machine, surveillance camera, etc.) interact
with the smart meter/energy management system and vice-versa.
This draft is an initial input for consideration of SIP as an
appropriate application protocol for use inside devices that operate
over low powered IP networks.
The authors do NOT propose the use of SIP for all HAN devices.
Rather, the authors believe that SIP is an appropriate protocol for
certain categories of devices and therefore, the 6lowapp group should
consider SIP as an appropriate protocol for the same. The final
protocol that is ideal for a particular device communication will
always be determined by the use-case(s) that are envisioned for the
same.
This draft does NOT discuss the use of SIP inside the smart meter
(while the authors believe that the smart meter would also benefit
from SIP, that is the scope of another draft and does not apply to
the 6lowapp work). Therefore, in all diagrams and references, the
authors have used the term 'Energy Management System (EMS)' to refer
to the customer premise EMS that may or may not be the smart meter
itself.
Conventions used in this document
In examples, "C:" and "S:" indicate lines sent by the client and
server respectively.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119 [1].
The term EMS refers to the customer premise Energy Management System
which may be the smart meter or an adjunct devices that communicates
with the utility core network for the purposes of energy management
and billing.
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