Comparative Analysis of Objective Functions in Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks

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Ashima Khosla, Dr. Trilok Chand Aseri

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Internet-of-Things (IoT), a new paradigm, has led to the extensive increase in communication among the tiny and embedded network devices. Majority of those devices are power, memory, and energy constrained and are made to work in lossy environments, thus forming an important part of Low Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs). Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) designed by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is proved to be an effective candidate for routing in such networks. RPL defines the Objective Functions (OFs) in which a set of routing metrics (like hop count, ETX and so on) are used either in an individual or combined manner for optimal path selection between the nodes of the network in terms of various performance factors like power consumed, Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), reliability and so on. There are two standard Objective Functions- Objective function Zero (OF0) and Minimum Rank Hysteresis Objective Function (MRHOF). The former uses the hop count and the latter uses the Expected Transmission Count (ETX) as the default routing metrics to select the optimal paths. But both of them are single metric Objective Functions (OFs) and have to face various issues regarding the energy consumed, network lifetime and so on. So a number of RPL optimizations incorporating the different routing metrics in a combined way have been proposed to enhance the performance in all respects. This paper gives the comparative analysis of existing Objective Functions that are based on different routing metrics and concludes that the use of a combination of multiple metrics will further improve the RPL performance in future.

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, A. K. D. T. C. A. (2018). Comparative Analysis of Objective Functions in Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks. International Journal on Future Revolution in Computer Science &Amp; Communication Engineering, 4(3), 556–562. Retrieved from http://www.ijfrcsce.org/index.php/ijfrcsce/article/view/1361
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