Posted by Joe Polastre on April 10, 2007 at 5:55 PM
Filed under: Industry

Sensinode, a startup in Europe, has released a GPL implementation of the proposed (and not yet final or standardized) IETF 6lowpan standard. Nanostack 0.9.4 only runs on the Sensinode hardware at this time, but shows promise of an open standards world where the protocols are accessible through open source.

The Nanostack 6lowpan implementation includes:

• IEEE 802.15.4 ad-hoc and beacon-mode support
• Automatic neighbor table
• 6lowpan implementation (draft-ietf-6lowpan-format-12)
• UDP, IPv6 and lowpan
• Routing table
• lowpan mesh routing support
• Includes a reference mesh routing algorithm

Not supported yet:

• All uncompressed fields
• Fragmentation

According to Sensinode, the implementation is C and very portable. I hope that we will soon see this implementation on more platforms and are able to innovate and benchmark using an open stack. These activities are key to pushing open standards forward, and I'm excited to see Sensinode release an open source stack.

Read the Nanostack 0.9.4 press release >>  

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