We would like to announce the plugfest event at the 90th IETF Meeting in Toronto.
Low Power and Lossy Networks plugfest at IETF90
The IETF 6TiSCH, IETF 6lo and IETF ROLL working groups are hosting an informal "plugfest" event at the IETF90 meeting, in Toronto, CA, during the week of July 20-25 2014.
Goals
The goal of this event is to bring together people interested in hands-on experience around the technology developed by the 6TiSCH, 6lo and ROLL working groups, with a particular focus on the TSCH mode of IEEE802.15.4e, 6lowpan, RPL and new WG specifications.
When and where ?
- Date: Sunday July 20 2014, 0900-1300 EDT.
- Location: Meeting Room TBD, Fairmont Royal York Hotel 100 Front Street W, Toronto, CA.
Early access: TBD if the plugfest room will be open starting 8am EDT on Sunday 20 2014 to allow people to set up.
Topology proposed - TBD
- Star topology
- IPv6
Complementary angles
This event will feature the following complementary angles:
- Interoperation
- Demonstration
- Tools
Focus 1: Interoperation
Download the interoperation guidelines:
The goal is to achieve interoperation between different hardware and software implementations on the different aspects addressed by 6lo, 6TiSCH and ROLL WGs. This include 6TiSCH minimal draft implementation, demonstrating TSCH synchronization and OF0 for RPL on a minimal network. 6lowpan to demostrate cross link layer inter-operability by means of bridges or backbones routers. Storing and non-storing RPL implementation including its coexistance in different sub-networks.
The focus during this event is open to demonstrating 6lo, ROLL or 6TiSCH drafts implementations, including but not limited to: e.g. - 6TiSCH minimal draft: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-00. - TBD
Participants are encouraged to bring devices which implement parts or all of the listed drafts.
Levels of interoperation are proposed:
- Level 1, star topology. A single BBR devices acts as the time source neighbor for all other nodes. Nodes need to demonstrate frame-based and acknowledgement-based synchronization. The static TSCH schedule, as well as all slot timings are taken from draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-00.
- Level 2, multi-hop topology. This level builds upon level 1. The goal of this level is full compliance to draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-00, including multi-hop routing (RPL).
- Level 3, on-the-fly scheduling. [optional] Preliminary implementations of http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dujovne-6tisch-on-the-fly can be shown.
- Level 4, drafts from ROLL, such as: draft-ietf-roll-mpl-parameter-configuration, draft-ko-roll-mix-network-pathology, Opportunistic routing, selective DIS, and others that participants want to show
- Level 5, drafts from 6lo, such as: draft-ietf-6lo-btle, draft-ietf-6lo-ghc,draft-ietf-6lo-lowpanz, and others that participants want to show.
- Level 6 Other drafts, such as draft-thubert-6man-flow-label-for-rpl, etc.
Focus 2: Demonstration
Participants are encouraged to bring devices and technology based on 6TiSCH, 6lo and ROLL which they believe can be of interest for the other participants. These devices may or may not participate in the interoperation event. Demonstration of more complete systems are encouraged, for example systems which show the interconnection of a 6TiSCH based mesh to traditional networks.
Focus 3: Tools
Participants are encouraged to bring and present different tools developed around 6TiSCH/6lo/ROLL networks. Possible tools include, but are not limited to:
- acquisition devices (i.e. "sniffers")
- packet analysis tools (e.g. Wireshark)
- simulation/emulation platforms
Important Dates
The preparation of this event will be held during a portion of the bi-weekly 6TiSCH call (To Be Decided how and when!!!). In particular:
- 06/02/2014 Announcement of the plugfest event to the WG/ML related with constrained devices, such as: 6tisch, 6lo, roll, core, lwig, dtls-iot, coman, ace, etc.
- 06/06/2014 Adoption of the plugfest call by the WGs, and call for participants at each group.
- 06/02/2014-06/13/2014 Participants have contacted the plugfest chairs (Xavier or Ines) with a tentative description of what they wish to participate in.
- 06/20/2014 Synchronization point 1. Participants can share the state of advancement of the implementation and raise blocking points.
- 07/11/2014 Synchronization point 2. Participants can share the state of advancement of the implementation and raise blocking points.
- 07/20/2014. Plugfest at IETF90.
Tentative Agenda from 9:00 to 13:00
- [09.00] Welcome and Initial Instructions
- [09.05] Participants Pitch (5 min per Participant)
- [09.45] Participants Pitch Tools (5 min per Participant)
- [10.15] Interoperation (Islands)
- [11.50] Feedback and open discussion.
- [12.40] Acknowledgements and Plugfest End
For More Information
- Contact: Xavi Vilajosana xvilajosana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - Ines Robles mariainesrobles@xxxxxxxxx
Note Well
This event is organized as part of the IETF90 standardization meeting. You need to register to the IETF90 conference to be able to participate. Daily passes are available. The IETF Note Well applies to this plugfest, see http://www.ietf.org/about/note-well.html.
About
The IETF 6TiSCH working group standardizes mechanisms focusing on enabling IPv6 over the TSCH mode of the IEEE802.15.4e standard. You can access the charter at http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/6tisch/charter/, which also contains links to the mailing list and the Internet-Drafts published by the group. 6TiSCH holds weekly phone calls on Friday 8am PST. Participation is open, and is subject to the IETF Note Well.
The IETF 6lo working group focuses on the work that facilitates IPv6 connectivity over constrained node networks with the characteristics of: limited power, memory and processing resources;. You can access the charter at https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/6lo/charter/, which also contains links to the mailing list and the I-D published by the group.
The IETF ROLL working group is focused on routing issues for LLN (Low Power and Lossy Networks), in IPv6 routing architectural framework for the industrial, connected home, building and urban sensor networks application scenarios. You can access the charter at https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/roll/charter/, which also contains links to the mailing list and the I-D published by the group.