Lecture slides released
The companion lecture slides for 6LoWPAN: The Wireless Embedded Internet have now been released on The Book page of 6lowpan.net. This first part of the book's course material includes a suggested course syllabus, and 115 of lecture slides in both PowerPoint and PDF formats. This overview of the book is a good tool for lecturers, students and professionals alike. The slides have been released under a creative commons by-nc-sa license to encourage re-use. The companion exercise slides for Contiki are planned for release in the near future.
Links to the syllabus and lecture slides:
6LoWPAN Book Course Syllabus (PDF)
6LoWPAN Book Lecture Slides (PPT)
6LoWPAN Book Lecture Slides (PDF)
We hope everyone finds these useful!
Book Seminar in Finland
For people interested in 6LoWPAN technology in Finland, Zach will be giving a seminar with the latest news on what is happening in the industry and a technical overview of our new 6LoWPAN book. Thanks to the Center for Internet Excellence for hosting the event. Here is the information:
Tuesday December 8th, 13-15
Center for Internet Excellence
Oulu, Finland
The seminar is free of charge (and there is coffee too!)
Zach will also be teaching several long and short courses based on the book in 2010:
February 2010 - Kokkola, Finland - Chydenius Institute
Winter 2010 - Oulu, Finland - Center for Wireless Communications
June 2010 - Oulu, Finland - Ubi Summer School
Aug/Sept 2010 - Croatia - SenZations Summer School
6LoWPAN Book Released
Our 6LoWPAN book has now been released by Wiley. Last week we received the very first copies directly in Japan while at IETF-76. Pre-orders should start arriving any time now to people. At least we are very pleased with the result, so happy reading! For those who would like a preview an excerpt is available on-line:
“6LoWPAN: The Wireless Embedded Internet” – Chapter 1
I will be releasing the book’s companion course slides and exercises very soon here on http://6lowpan.net.
Zach Shelby
News from the 75th IETF
(from On the Internet of Things blog)
Here is some of the latest news from IETF activities related to the Internet of Things:
6LoWPAN - The 6lowpan working group is currently moving four Internet-Drafts towards last call in the standards track (Improved Header Compression, 6LoWPAN Neighbor Discovery) and informational track (Use Cases, Routing Requirements). I presented the latest ND draft, which has good consensus and will be going through a round of technical improvements within 2 weeks. Next the WG is looking to re-charter to continue on subjects such as security, MIBs etc.
ROLL – The roll working group presented the RPL (pronounced “ripple”) routing protocol draft, which has been accepted as an official working group document today. This will be the basis for routing over low-power and lossy networks including 6LoWPAN, which still needs lots of contribution to reach a full solution.
New 6lowapp effort - We held a very successful meeting about applications in resource-constrained networks. About 60-70 people attended presentations from Carsten Bormann, Don Sturek (from Pacific Gas & Electric and ZigBee/IP) along with a set of 2-minute stand-ups. The presentation is available here. The feedback from IETF Area Directors was that there is obvious support, motivation and requirements (and that we are in a hurry) – so start working! A 6lowapp mailing list and wiki page will be coming soon, keep tuned.
There was a great presence at the IETF from IPSO members, who held several meetings during the same week. Thanks to the move of ZigBee and the energy industry towards all-IP smart energy we say many new participants in Stockholm. It is really positive to see the collaboration between the IETF, IPSO, ZigBee and Utilities in this area.