nStack
Specs compliant, full featured implementation of PLC protocol layers.
Interoperable with third party implementations
Hardware agnostic and ported to multiple PHY layers
Both Coordinator and Device implementations
FCC & ARIB band support
MAC layer
- Active Scan
- MAC level ARQ
- G3 PIB attributes
- Channel estimation
- CSMA, including Virtual Carrier Sense & Prioritization
- MAC level SAR including subsequent segment collision avoidance
ADP layer
- 6LoWPAN including
- Unicast, multicast (groups) & broadcast mesh routing
- Fragmentation & reassembly
- IPv6 Header Compression
- LOADng with composite metric
- Manual & auto route discovery
- Link repair & error signaling
- Path request mechanism
- Commissioning with LBP
(v1.4)
Both Base Node and Service Node implementations
FCC & ARIB band support
MAC layer
- v1.4 (latest version)
- Robustness management
- 100% backward compatible with v1.3.6
- All mandatory PIB attributes and large number of additional non-standard PIB attributes
- ARQ with configurable window size
Convergence layers
- IPv4
- ICMP, UDP
- Seamless integration in linux IP stack on Base Node
- Management Plane
- PIB get/set
- Firmware upgrade (FU) application on Base Node
- FU on Base Node fully interoperable with v1.3.6 FU on Service Nodes
- 4-32 CL for interoperability with Meters