Research Status of 6LoWPAN in the Field of Internet of Things

The increasing number of wireless sensor nodes brings more application markets and challenges to the Internet of things (IoT). The traditional IPv4 address resources cannot meet the needs of the development of the IoT, so we need a communication mechanism with better compatibility and scalability. With the proposal of the 6LoWPAN protocol, the application of 6LoWPAN to the communication network of the IoT has become the focus of research. This paper studies the research status of 6LoWPAN in the field of Internet of things in the past four years, and analyzes the system architecture, system composition and monitoring parameters of 6LoWPAN through different application scenarios. Experiments in related literatures show that 6LoWPAN has stable network transmission performance and can be used for precise monitoring and management in combination with web applications. In addition, RPL routing protocol security algorithm can be one of the future research directions.