Section: Dissemination

Standardization activities

Participants : Anthony Baire, César Viho, Nanxing Chen.

The Dionysos team continues to dedicate a significant effort towards standardization and certification in the telecommunications area. We participate in several working groups of the main telecommunication standardization institutes like the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), ETSI (European Telecommunication Standardization Institute), etc. We are also active in the main mailing-lists treating new generation networks and protocols. Several proposals of drafts and contributions to the definition of standards and RFCs (Request For Comments) have been published. This year we continued focusing mainly on Internet of Things and related protocols such as 6LowPAN (IPv6 for Low Power Area Networks) and CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol).

IPv6 Ready Logo Program

Participants : Anthony Baire, César Viho.

Dionysos team has also a major role in the world-wide certification process for IPv6 products launched by the IPv6 Forum, the “IPv6 Ready Logo Program”. For details, see http://www.ipv6ready.org . This project aims to provide the means needed to test existing IPv6 products to be deployed in the market. Dionysos contributes to the technical part of this Program by defining the certification process itself, specifying required tests, and developing some of the interoperability tests needed. This work is done together with the IPv6 Forum, the ETSI in Europe, the WIDE-project in Japan, the TTA (Telecommunications Technology Association) in Korea and BII in China.

This year, in collaboration with the IPSO alliance and ETSI, we addressed the usage of IPv6 on smart objects based on the IEEE 802.15.4 link layer (for instance, sensor networks). These networks have special constraints (limited power, packet loss, ...) and new protocols are designed at IETF (6LowPAN, CoAP) to allow using IPv6 with these constraints. We participated in the preparation of two Interoperability events for these protocols in June in Berlin (Germany) and in November in Las Vegas (USA).