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IoT physical and link layer technologies determine many of the most important characteristics of the protocol stacks they belong to. This includes critical attributes like transmission rate, latency, and overall power efficiency. In the context of IoT, however, many of these physical and link layer mechanisms are derived and taken from proprietary stacks that were not designed to support end-to-end IPv6 connectivity. To this end, this chapter first explores some of the basic concepts associated with these mechanisms, and then it focuses on the different wireless as well as wireline physical and link layer protocols with emphasis on their features and characteristics.
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Herrero, R. (2022). Physical and Link Layers. In: Fundamentals of IoT Communication Technologies. Textbooks in Telecommunication Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70080-5_3
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