RPL Protocol Load balancing Schemes in Low-Power and Lossy Networks

Poorana Senthilkumar S.¹ , Subramani B.²

1. Department of Computer Applications, Dr. N.G.P. Arts and Science College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
2. SNMV College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

Section:Review Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.11 , Issue.1 , pp.7-13, Feb-2023

Online published on Feb 28, 2023

Copyright © Poorana Senthilkumar S., Subramani B. . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
The Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks (RPL) is the most crucial in the Internet of Things (IoT) for the routing process. The RPL protocol is proposed by the Internet-Engineering Task-Force (IETF)-Routing over low-power and lossy-networks (ROLL) working group for IoT environments routing service. RPL has been improved for a wide range of IoT application scenarios and environments. One of the primary reasons for RPL improvement is load balancing. In Low-Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs), the load balancing can even degrade network performance and node lifetime. In this article, contains the RPL enhanced schemes offered for the load balancing, for IoT/LLNs, and explores future research options.

Key-Words / Index Term :
IoT, LLNs, RPL, Routing, node, Load balancing

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