Experimental evaluation of a Routing Protocol for WSNs: RPL robustness under study

Karel Heurtefeux, Hamid Menouar, Najah Abuali

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    Abstract

    This paper presents experimental results on the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL). The RPL properties in terms of delivery ratio, control packet overhead, dynamics and robustness are studied. The results are obtained by several experimentations conducted on 2 large wireless sensor network testbeds composed of more than 100 sensor nodes each. In this real-life scenario (high density and convergecast traffic), several intrinsic characteristics of RPL are underlined: path length stability but reduced delivery ratio and important overhead. To investigate the RPL robustness, we observe its behavior when facing a sudden death of several sensors and when several sensors are redeployed. RPL shows good abilities to maintain the routing process despite such events. However, the paper highlights that this ability can be reduced if only few critical nodes fail. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first study of RPL on such large platform.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob 2013
    Pages491-498
    Number of pages8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013
    Event2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob 2013 - Lyon, France
    Duration: Oct 7 2013Oct 9 2013

    Publication series

    NameInternational Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications
    ISSN (Print)2161-9646
    ISSN (Electronic)2161-9654

    Other

    Other2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob 2013
    Country/TerritoryFrance
    CityLyon
    Period10/7/1310/9/13

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computer Networks and Communications
    • Hardware and Architecture
    • Software

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