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Network Working Group J. Jeong
Internet-Draft Sungkyunkwan University
Intended status: Standards Track J. Park
Expires: January 7, 2016 ETRI
July 6, 2015
DNS Name Autoconfiguration for Internet of Things Devices
draft-jeong-homenet-device-name-autoconf-03
Abstract
This document specifies an autoconfiguration scheme for DNS names of
Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as appliances and sensors. By
this scheme, the DNS name of an IoT device can be autoconfigured with
the device's category and model in wired and wireless networks (e.g.,
home, office, shopping mall, smart grid, and road network). This DNS
name lets IoT users (e.g., home residents and customers) easily
identify each device for monitoring and remote-controlling it in a
target network.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Applicability Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. DNS Name Autoconfiguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5.1. DNS Name Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5.2. Procedure of DNS Name Autoconfiguration . . . . . . . . . 5
5.2.1. Procedure of Device Name Generation . . . . . . . . . 5
5.2.2. Uniqueness Test of Device DNS Name . . . . . . . . . . 6
5.2.3. Collection of Device DNS Names . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.2.4. Retrieval of Device DNS Names . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. Location-Aware DNS Name Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.1. Macro-Location-Aware DNS Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.2. Micro-Location-Aware DNS Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7. DNS Name Management for Mobile IoT Devices . . . . . . . . . . 9
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
9. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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1. Introduction
Many Internet of Things (IoT) devices (e.g., appliances and sensors)
have begun to have wireless communication capability (e.g., WiFi,
Bluetooth, and ZigBee) for monitoring and remote-controlling in a
local network or the Internet. According to the capacity, such IoT
devices can be categorized into high-capacity devices and low-
capacity devices. High-capacity devices have a high-power processor
and a large storage, such as appliances (e.g., television,
refrigerator, air conditioner, and washing machine) and smart devices
(smartphone and tablet). They are placed in environments (e.g.,
home, office, shopping mall, smart grid, and road network) for the
direct use for human users, and they require the interaction with
human users. Low-capacity devices have a low-power processor and a
small storage, such as sensors (e.g., light, meter, room temperature
controller, and sensors). They are installed for the easy management
of environments (e.g., home, office, store, and factory), and they do
not require the interaction with human users.
For the Internet connectivity of IoT devices, a variety of parameters
(e.g., IPv6 addresses, default routers, and DNS servers) can be
automatically configured by Neighbor Discovery (ND) for IP Version 6,
IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration, and IPv6 Router
Advertisement (RA) Options for DNS Configuration [RFC4861][RFC4862]
[RFC6106].
For these IoT devices, the manual configuration of DNS names will be
cumbersome and time-consuming as the number of them increases rapidly
in a network. It will be good for such DNS names to be automatically
configured such that they are readable to human users.
This document proposes an autoconfiguration scheme for DNS names of
IoT devices. Since an autoconfigured DNS name contains the device
category and model of a device, the users can easily identify the
device. With this device category and model, they will be able to
monitor and remote-control each device with mobile smart devices,
such as smartphone and tablet.
1.1. Applicability Statements
It is assumed that IoT devices have networking capability through
wired or wireless communication media, such as Ethernet [IEEE-802.3],
WiFi [IEEE-802.11] [IEEE-802.11a] [IEEE-802.11b][IEEE-802.11g]
[IEEE-802.11n], Bluetooth [IEEE-802.15.1], and ZigBee [IEEE-802.15.4]
in a local area network (LAN) or personal area network (PAN).
Also, it is assumed that each IoT device has a factory configuration
(called device configuration) having device category (e.g., smart TV,
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smartphone, tablet, and refrigerator) and model (i.e., a specific
model name of the device). This device configuration can be read by
the device for DNS name autoconfiguration.
2. Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
3. Terminology
This document uses the terminology described in [RFC4861] and
[RFC4862]. In addition, four new terms are defined below:
o Device Configuration: A factory configuration that has device
category (e.g., smart TV, smartphone, tablet, and refrigerator)
and model (i.e., a specific model name of the device).
o DNS Search List (DNSSL): The list of DNS suffix domain names used
by IPv6 hosts when they perform DNS query searches for short,
unqualified domain names [RFC6106].
o DNSSL Option: IPv6 RA option to deliver the DNSSL information to
IPv6 hosts [RFC6106].
4. Overview
This document specifies an autoconfiguration scheme for an IoT device
using device configuration and DNS search list. Device configuration
has device category and device model. DNS search list has DNS suffix
domain names that represent the DNS domains of a network having the
IoT device [RFC6106].
As an IPv6 host, the IoT device can obtain DNS search list through
IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) with DNS Search List (DNSSL) Option
[RFC4861][RFC6106] or DHCPv6 with Domain Search List Option
[RFC3315][RFC3736][RFC3646].
The IoT device can construct its DNS name with the concatenation of
device category, device model, and domain name. Since there exist
more than one device with the same model, the DNS name should have a
unique identification to differentiate multiple devices with the same
model.
Since both RA and DHCPv6 can be simultaneously used for the parameter
configuration for IPv6 hosts, this document considers the DNS name
autoconfigurtion in the coexistence of RA and DHCP.
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5. DNS Name Autoconfiguration
The DNS name autoconfiguration for an IoT device needs the
acquisition of DNS search list through either RA [RFC6106] or DHCPv6
[RFC3646]. Once the DNS search list is obtained, the IoT device
autonomously constructs its DNS name(s) with the DNS search list and
its device information.
5.1. DNS Name Format
A DNS name for an IoT device has the following format as in Figure 1:
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| unique_id.device_model.device_category.domain_name |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 1: Home Network Device's DNS Name Format
Fields:
unique_id unique identifier to guarantee the uniqueness
of the DNS name in ASCII characters. The
identifier MAY be a sequence number or
alphanumeric with readability, such as product
name.
device_model device's model name in ASCII characters. It
is a product model name provided by the
manufacturer.
device_category device's category name in ASCII characters,
such as TV, refrigerator, air conditioner,
smartphone, tablet, light, and meter.
domain_name DNS domain name that is encoded according to
the specification of "Representation and use
of domain name" of RFC 3315.
5.2. Procedure of DNS Name Autoconfiguration
The procedure of DNS name autoconfiguration is performed through a
DNSSL option delivered by either RA [RFC6106] or DHCPv6 [RFC3646].
5.2.1. Procedure of Device Name Generation
When as an IPv6 host a device receives a DNSSL option through either
RA or DHCPv6, it checks the validity for the DNSSL option. If the
option is valid, the IPv6 host performs the DNS name
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autoconfiguration with each DNS suffix domain name in the DNSSL
option as follows:
1. The host constructs its DNS name with the DNS suffix domain name
along with device configuration and a selected identifier (as
unique_id) that is considered unique.
2. The host performs the uniqueness test of the constructed DNS
name. The uniqueness test is performed through duplicate address
detection (DAD) procedure in ND [RFC4861][RFC4862]. See Section
5.2.2 for the detailed test procedure.
3. If the DNS name is proven to be unique, it is used as the
device's DNS name and the DNS autoconfiguration is done for the
given DNS suffix domain name. Otherwise, go to Step 1.
When the DNS search list has more than one DNS suffix domain name,
the IPv6 host repeats the above procedure until all of the DNS
suffixes are used for the DNS name autoconfiguration.
5.2.2. Uniqueness Test of Device DNS Name
An IPv6 host generates an IPv6 address for its device DNS name with a
64-bit prefix from an RA option (or DHCPv6) and the first 64-bit hash
value corresponding to the DNS name. Before using such an IPv6
address associated with the DNS name, the IPv6 host performs the DAD
to check whether the address belongs to another IPv6 host or not.
Note that the IPv6 host configures the IPv6 address corresponding to
the DNS name as its address. If the address belongs to another IPv6
host, it is considered that the DNS name corresponding to the address
is occupied by a different host. Thus, the IPv6 host selects another
unique identifier (as unique_id) for a DNS name and repeats the
uniqueness test of the new DNS name with the identifier.
1. The host computes the hash value of the DNS name to be tested for
the uniqueness using a hash function (i.e., MD5). It takes the
first 64 bits of the hash value from most significant bit.
2. The host performs the uniqueness test of the constructed DNS
name. The uniqueness test is performed three times through the
DAD procedure in ND [RFC4861][RFC4862].
3. If the DNS name is proven to be unique with no response for the
DAD, the device configures the DNS name and the corresponding
IPv6 address as its own DNS name and address, respectively,
returning the success of the uniqueness test. Otherwise, return
the failure of the uniqueness test.
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5.2.3. Collection of Device DNS Names
Once as IPv6 hosts the devices have autoconfigured their DNS names,
as a collector, any IPv6 node (i.e., router or host) in the same
subnet can collect the device DNS names using IPv6 Node Information
(NI) protocol [RFC4620].
For a collector to collect the device DNS names without any prior
node information, a new NI query needs to be defined. That is, a new
ICMPv6 Code (e.g., 3) SHOULD be defined for the collection of the
IPv6 host DNS names. The Data field is not included in the ICMPv6
header since the NI query is for all the IPv6 hosts in the same
subnet. The Qtype field for NI type type is set to 2 for Node Name.
The query SHOULD be transmitted by the collector to a link-local
multicast address for this NI query. Assume that a link-local
multicast address SHOULD be defined for device DNS name collection
and that all the IPv6 hosts join this link-local multicast address
for the device DNS name collection service.
When an IPv6 host receives this query sent by the collector in
multicast, it transmits its Reply with a random interval between zero
and Query Response Interval, as defined by Multicast Listener
Discovery Version 2 [RFC3810]. This randomly delayed Reply allows
the collector to collect the device DNS names with less frame
collision probability by spreading out the Reply time instants.
After the collector collects the device DNS names, it collects the
IPv6 addresses corresponding to the DNS names by NI protocol
[RFC4620]. For DNS name resolution service, the collector can
register the pair(s) of DNS name and IPv6 address for each IPv6 host
into a recursive DNS server known to the collector using DNS dynamic
update [RFC2136].
5.2.4. Retrieval of Device DNS Names
A smart device like smartphone can retrieve the DNS names of IoT
devices by contacting a local DNS server having the IoT device DNS
names. If the smart device can retrieve the zone file with the DNS
names, it can display the information of IoT devices in a local
network, such as home network. With this information, the user can
monitor and control the IoT devices.
6. Location-Aware DNS Name Configuration
If the DNS name of an IoT device includes location information, it
allows users to easily identify the physical location of each device.
This document proposes the representation of location in a DNS name.
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6.1. Macro-Location-Aware DNS Name
If location information (such as living room, kitchen, and bedroom in
an apartment) is available to an IoT device, a keyword for the
location can be used to construct a DNS name as subdomain name. This
location information lets users track the position of mobile devices
(such as smartphone, tablet, and vacuum cleaning robot). The
physical location of the device is defined as macro-location for DNS
naming.
A subdomain name for macro-location (denoted as mac_loc) MAY be
placed between device_category and domain_name of the DNS name format
in Figure 2. A localization scheme for device location is beyond the
scope of this document.
6.2. Micro-Location-Aware DNS Name
An IoT device can be located in the center, wall, or corner in a room
that is specified by macro-location. For example, assume that a
cleaning robot is located in the right-upper corner of a living room.
If the DNS name for the cleaning robot contains the right-upper
corner of the living room, a home resident can find it easily. In
this document, for this DNS naming, the detailed location for an IoT
device can be specified as a micro-location subdomain name.
A subdomain name for micro-location (denoted as mic_loc) MAY be
placed between device_category and domain_name of the DNS name format
in Figure 2. A localization scheme for micro-location is beyond the
scope of this document.
To denote both macro-location (i.e., mac_loc) and micro-location
(i.e., mic_loc) into a DNS name, the following format is described as
in Figure 2:
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| unique_id.device_model.device_category.mic_loc.mac_loc.domain_name|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 2: Location-Aware Device DNS Name Format
Fields:
unique_id unique identifier to guarantee the uniqueness
of the DNS name in ASCII characters. The
identifier MAY be a sequence number or
alphanumeric with readability, such as product
name.
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device_model device's model name in ASCII characters. It
is a product model name provided by the
manufacturer.
device_category device's category name in ASCII characters,
such as TV, refrigerator, air conditioner,
smartphone, tablet, light, and meter.
mic_loc device's micro-location, such as center,
wall, and corner.
mac_loc device's macro-location, such as living room.
domain_name DNS domain name that is encoded according to
the specification of "Representation and use
of domain name" of RFC 3315.
7. DNS Name Management for Mobile IoT Devices
Some IoT devices can have mobility, such as smartphone, tablet,
laptop computer, and cleaning robot. This mobility allows the IoT
devices to move from a subnet to another subnet where subnets can
have different domain suffixes, such as living_room.home and
garage.home. The DNS name change (or addition) due to the mobility
should be considered.
To deal with DNS name management in mobile environments, whenever an
IoT device enters a new subnet and receives DNS suffix domain names,
it generates its new DNS names and registers them into a designated
DNS server, specified by RDNSS option.
When the IoT device recognizes the movement to another subnet, it can
delete its previous DNS name(s) from the DNS server having the DNS
name(s), using DNS dynamic update [RFC2136]. For at least one DNS
name to remain in a DNS server for the location management in Mobile
IPv6 [RFC6275], the IoT device does not delete its default DNS name
in its home network in Mobile IPv6.
8. Security Considerations
This document shares all the security issues of the NI protocol that
are specified in the "Security Considerations" section of [RFC4620].
To prevent the disclosure of location information for privacy
concern, the subdomains related to location can be encrypted by a
shared key or public-and-private keys. For example, a DNS name of
smartphone1.living_room.home can be represented as
smartphone1.xxx.home where xxx is a string of the encrypted
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representation of the subdomain living_room.
9. Acknowledgements
This work was partly supported by the ICT R&D program of MSIP/IITP
[10041244, SmartTV 2.0 Software Platform] and ETRI.
10. References
10.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC4861] Narten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., and H.
Soliman, "Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6
(IPv6)", RFC 4861, September 2007.
[RFC4862] Thomson, S., Narten, T., and T. Jinmei, "IPv6
Stateless Address Autoconfiguration", RFC 4862,
September 2007.
[RFC6106] Jeong, J., Park, S., Beloeil, L., and S.
Madanapalli, "IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for
DNS Configuration", RFC 6106, November 2010.
[RFC3315] Droms, R., Ed., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
for IPv6 (DHCPv6)", RFC 3315, July 2003.
[RFC3736] Droms, R., "Stateless Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol (DHCP) Service for IPv6", RFC 3736,
April 2004.
[RFC3646] Droms, R., Ed., "DNS Configuration options for
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6
(DHCPv6)", RFC 3646, December 2003.
10.2. Informative References
[RFC4620] Crawford, M. and B. Haberman, Ed., "IPv6 Node
Information Queries", RFC 4620, August 2006.
[RFC3810] Vida, R. and L. Costa, "Multicast Listener Discovery
Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6", RFC 3810, June 2004.
[RFC2136] Vixie, P., Ed., Thomson, S., Rekhter, Y., and J.
Bound, "Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System
(DNS UPDATE)", RFC 2136, April 1997.
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[RFC6275] Perkins, C., Ed., Johnson, D., and J. Arkko,
"Mobility Support in IPv6", RFC 6275, July 2011.
[IEEE-802.3] IEEE Std 802.3, "IEEE Standard for Ethernet",
December 2012.
[IEEE-802.11] IEEE Std 802.11, "Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium
Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY)
Specifications", March 2012.
[IEEE-802.11a] IEEE Std 802.11a, "Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium
Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY)
specifications: High-speed Physical Layer in the 5
GHZ Band", September 1999.
[IEEE-802.11b] IEEE Std 802.11b, "Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium
Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY)
specifications: Higher-Speed Physical Layer
Extension in the 2.4 GHz Band", September 1999.
[IEEE-802.11g] IEEE P802.11g/D8.2, "Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium
Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY)
specifications: Further Higher Data Rate Extension
in the 2.4 GHz Band", April 2003.
[IEEE-802.11n] IEEE P802.11n/D9.0, "Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium
Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY)
specifications Amendment 5: Enhancements for Higher
Throughput", March 2009.
[IEEE-802.15.1] IEEE Std 802.15.1, "Part 15.1: Wireless Medium
Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY)
specifications for Wireless Personal Area Networks
(WPANs)", June 2005.
[IEEE-802.15.4] IEEE Std 802.15.4, "Part 15.4: Low-Rate Wireless
Personal Area Networks (LR-WPANs)", September 2011.
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Authors' Addresses
Jaehoon Paul Jeong
Sungkyunkwan University
2066 Seobu-Ro, Jangan-Gu
Suwon, Gyeonggi-Do 440-746
Republic of Korea
Phone: +82 31 299 4957
Fax: +82 31 290 5119
EMail: pauljeong@skku.edu
URI: http://cpslab.skku.edu/people-jaehoon-jeong.php
Jung-Soo Park
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
218 Gajeong-Ro, Yuseong-Gu
Daejeon, 305-700
Republic of Korea
Phone: +82 42 860 6514
EMail: pjs@etri.re.kr
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