NOVEL DATA AGGREGATION IN LOW-POWER AND LOSSY NETWORKS

With the continued growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) different types of Low-Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) have emerged. Such networks may face a number of challenges including, for example, link bottlenecks. To address these challenges techniques are presented herein that support a new method of aggregating data packets in a LLN without incurring a performance decrease. Aspects of the techniques presented herein leverage fragmenting of aggregated data packets (to avoid instances of a larger frame being dropped) and enhance the Media Access Control (MAC) layer (so that frames are grouped with just a single acknowledgement for all of the frames)