IPv6 transmission over BLE Using Raspberry PI 3
Javier Campos, Slater Colteryahn, Kanwalinderjit Kaur Gagneja · 2018 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) · 2018
The increased development regarding Internet of Things (IoT) devices has created various solutions for data transfer, including Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The release of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), or Bluetooth Smart, allows for a major improvement in data transfer using IPv6 over BLE, as proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in RFC 7668. IPv6 through BLE is widely used for IoT devices, however, connection to a raspberry pi 3 device, the most used mobile operating system, is widely underdeveloped. In this paper, we attempt to create a link-layer connection, guided by 6LoWPANs (stands for IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks) from RFC 4919, between two raspberry pi 3s to transfer IPv6 packets. BlueZ, the default Linux Bluetooth protocol stack, is used as the foundation of this data transfer in both PIs.