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The RPL Load Balancing in IoT Network with Burst Traffic Scenarios
  The RPL (Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks) has emerged within constrained networks as the de-facto IPv6 routing standard, which entangles many concepts that make it a complex, albeit a rather flexible protocol. However, load balancing has been underemphasized, making it an essential and practical issue of RPL, given the resource-constrained nature of a low-powered and lossy network (LLN). In this paper, we aim at determining whether a suggested load-balancing schemenamed QU-RPL (Queue utilization based RPL) can be considered as a viable solution to the significant loadbalancing problem in the standardised RPL under some specific conditions. Hence, our results show that QU-RPL does not provide significant improvements over RPL under the simulated environment, and there is still a further need for the development of a more efficient load-balancing mechanism.

  • Date:

    04 February 2019

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    IEEE

  • DOI:

    10.1109/skima.2018.8631520

  • Cross Ref:

    10.1109/skima.2018.8631520

  • Funders:

    University of the West of Scotland

Citation

Altwassi, H. S., Pervez, Z., Dahal, K., & Ghaleb, B. (2019). The RPL Load Balancing in IoT Network with Burst Traffic Scenarios. In 2018 12th International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management & Applications (SKIMA). https://doi.org/10.1109/skima.2018.8631520

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Keywords

Internet-of-Things Routing, LLNs, RPL, Objective Function, Load Balancing and Parent Count

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