Assessment of a proactive routing protocol RPL in Ipv6 based wireless sensor networks
Abdelhadi Eloudrhiri Hassani, Aïcha Sahel, Abdelmajid Badri · 2019
6LowPAN is an implementation of wireless sensor networks that using IPv6 to address sensors in the network. It's classified as a new technology that still in development. Therefore, IETF has proposed an IPv6 based routing protocol with low cost and power constraints. This routing protocol for Low power and lossy networks (RPL) selects the ideal routes from a source to a destination node based on certain metric injected into the objective functions (OF). This paper an assessment of Minimum Rank with Hysteresis Objective Function (MRHOF) and Objective Function Zero (OFO) in a different areas under a large scenarios and two realistic topologies considering the reliability in term of the Packet Delivery Ratio, the power consumption, the average end to end delay and the percentage of radio activity. For this, COOJA is used as a wireless sensor network simulator that emulat software and hardware levels of embedded nodes using contiki OS as a embedded operating system. Based on results of our simulations, we concluded that the choice of given objective function have affect the PDR and E2Edelay and can achieve saved energy levels. In conclusion, we propose to develop as a future work an objective function with hybridization more than one metric in order to deal with the compromise between PDR and energy consumption.