International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security (IJCNIS)
IJCNIS Vol. 11, No. 7, 8 Jul. 2019
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Proposing a Method for Enhancing the Reliability of RPL Routing Protocol in the Smart Grid Neighborhood Area Networks
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Routing Protocol (RPL), Smart Grid, Reliability, Neighborhood Area Networks
Abstract
The RPL routing protocol is one of the most prominent protocols for low-power wireless networks. It has many benefits, including high flexibility and compatibility with different topologies, quality assurance, automatic configuration, self-healing, avoiding the creation of tree loops, and independence and transparency. Since the RPL's capability to meet the reliability requirements has not been sufficiently investigated and there is not much research about the reliability of this protocol, the purpose of this study is to propose a method for enhancing the reliability of RPL routing protocol in the Smart Grid Neighborhood Area Networks (NAN). We propose three methods for increasing the reliability of the RPL protocol: addition of cache at each node, considering two parents for each node and finally the combination of the two mentioned methods. The type of research is descriptive-analytic. Simulations have been performed in OPNET simulator. The results of this study indicate that the proposed methods significantly increase the reliability of this routing protocol in Smart Grid NAN.
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Hossein Mohammadinejad, Fateme Mohammadhoseini, "Proposing a Method for Enhancing the Reliability of RPL Routing Protocol in the Smart Grid Neighborhood Area Networks", International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security(IJCNIS), Vol.11, No.7, pp.21-28, 2019. DOI:10.5815/ijcnis.2019.07.04
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