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There are many IoT protocol stacks that support WPAN topologies. They are associated with combinations of different physical, link, network, transport, and application layers that range from BLE to MQTT. One IoT protocol stack that has gained a lot of traction in the last few years is known as Thread. Thread is both an evolving protocol stack and implementation that relies on IEEE 802.15.4, 6LoWPAN, and CoAP, among other standards, to support home automation scenarios. This chapter introduces Thread, and it explores its capabilities and limitations. Specifically, it focuses on its topology and on the analysis of its performance and security constraints.
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Herrero, R. (2022). Thread Architecture. In: Fundamentals of IoT Communication Technologies. Textbooks in Telecommunication Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70080-5_9
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