Description
SCHC (Static Context Header Compression and fragmentation) is an international standard produced by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) [RFC8376, RFC8724, RFC8824, RFC9011]. The SCHC standard allows constrained IoT devices to join the Internet ecosystem, accelerating their integration into information systems. The impact of SCHC is constantly growing with great interest both from industrial and academic societies. SCHC is the result of a 6-year long standardization effort by the IETF LPWAN Working Group, in which both industrial and academic partners took part. Some of the leading proponents contribute to this tutorial. They will explain the original design choices and the future directions taken by the WG. This technology is being intensively studied by several universities worldwide and taken up by industry through other standardization bodies such as the LoRa Alliance or the DLMS User Association, dealing with the world of electricity meters. Other use cases are under study for industrial and home automation networks. SCHC applies to several network technologies such as Sigfox, LoRaWAN, and 4G/5G. A fundamental Internet Protocol (IP) stack knowledge is required to benefit from this tutorial. The targeted audience encompasses: teaching staff intending to include SCHC as a topic in their class and hands-on, Master level students, Ph.D. candidates and researchers eager to improve or adapt SCHC to new environments, members of Standard Defining Organizations (SDO) considering including SCHC as a building block in their standards. In addition to the slideware-delivered content, the tutorial will feature demonstrations on the openSCHC platform.
Chairs
Dr. Laurent Toutain, IMT Atlantique
Laurent Toutain is a Professor with the IMT Atlantique Graduate Engineering School and a Co-founder and a Scientific Advisor of Acklio. He worked for several years on IPv6 and participated in the creation of the G6 group, which has been gathering researchers and industrialists around IPv6 since 1995. His current research focuses on protocols and architectures specific to IoT’s needs. From 2011 to 2015, he managed the Smart Grid competence center shared by Télécom Bretagne, Texas Instruments, and ITRON. He is the author of several books on networks.
Dr. Hussein Al Haj Hassan, Acklio
Hussein Al Haj Hassan received the Engineering degree in telecommunication and computer from the Lebanese University and the master degree in networks of telecommunications from the Lebanese University and Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon in 2011 and 2012 respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Networking from IMT Atlantique (Telecom Bretagne), Rennes, France in 2015. He was a faculty member at the American University of Science and Technology between 2016 and 2021. He is currently a standardization and research engineer at Acklio, Rennes, France. His research focuses on wireless communication, cellular networks, IoT, energy efficiency and machine learning.
Dr. Dominique Barthel, Orange
A radio and electronics enthusiast since his teen age, Dominique Barthel received Engineering Degrees in Applied Sciences from Ecole Polytechnique, France and in Electronics from SUPELEC, France in 1985 and 1987, respectively. After a first career architecting and designing microprocessors and CPUs, he turned to protocols for the Internet of Thinks, working as a researcher for Orange in Grenoble, France. An active contributor to the IETF for over a decade, he currently serves as co-chair of the ROLL Working Group. His research focuses on low-power wireless communication, energy-efficient implementations and IoT.
Dr. Georgios Papadopoulos, IMT Atlantique
Georgios Z. Papadopoulos (MIEEE) serves as an Associate Professor at the IMT Atlantique in Rennes, France. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bristol. He received his HDR from University of Rennes 1 in 2021, and his PhD from University of Strasbourg, in 2015 with honors. Dr. Papadopoulos has participated in numerous international and national research projects on diverse networking verticals. Moreover, he has received several grants for young researchers, including the prestigious French national grant ANR JCJC in 2017. He has given more than 20 invited talks at various universities and research labs world-wide, and has been involved in the organization and program committee of many international scientific events, such as IEEE GLOBECOM’21, IEEE ISCC’20, IEEE DIPI’19, AdHoc-Now’18, IEEE CSCN’18, GIIS’18, IEEE ISCC’17. Moreover, he has been serving as Associate Editor for Wireless Networks journal and Internet Technology Letters since 2018, and for Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT) since 2020. He is author of more than 70 peer-reviewed publications in the area of computer communications, networks, and cybersecurity. He actively participates at the IETF standards organization with multiple drafts in the ROLL, DetNet, and RAW WGs. His research interests include Industrial IoT, Deterministic Networks, Smart Grid, Battery Management System (BMS) in Electric Vehicles (EV), CyberSecurity, and Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) for 5G networks.