Paper Info
Title
Load balanced routing for low power and lossy networks
Abstract
The RPL routing protocol published in RFC 6550 was designed for efficient and reliable data collection in low-power and lossy networks. Specifically, it constructs a Destination Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (DODAG) for data forwarding. However, due to the uneven deployment of sensor nodes in large areas, and the heterogeneous traffic patterns in the network, some sensor nodes may have much heavier workload in terms of packets forwarded than others. Such unbalanced workload distribution will result in these sensor nodes quickly exhausting their energy, and therefore shorten the overall network lifetime. In this paper, we propose a load balanced routing protocol based on the RPL protocol, named LB-RPL, to achieve balanced workload distribution in the network. Targeted at the low-power and lossy network environments, LB-RPL detects workload imbalance in a distributed and non-intrusive fashion. In addition, it optimizes the data forwarding path by jointly considering both workload distribution and link-layer communication qualities. We demonstrate the performance superiority of our LB-RPL protocol over original RPL through extensive simulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/WCNC.2013.6554908
WCNC
Keywords
Field
DocType
rfc 6550,lossy networks,data communication,workload signaling,large-scale sensor network,heterogeneous traffic patterns,telecommunication network reliability,low power and lossy networks,workload distribution,rpl routing protocol,sensor nodes deployment,load balanced routing,destination oriented directed acyclic graph,lb-rpl,link quality adaptation,routing protocols,unbalanced workload distribution,reliable data collection,link-layer communication,buffer capability utilization,load balanced routing protocol,graph theory,wireless sensor networks,telecommunication traffic,workload detection,nonintrusive fashion,reliability,measurement,routing,data collection
Equal-cost multi-path routing,Dynamic Source Routing,Computer science,Path vector protocol,Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol,Computer network,Real-time computing,Wireless Routing Protocol,Routing Information Protocol,Distributed computing,Routing protocol,Zone Routing Protocol
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1525-3511 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-5937-5
978-1-4673-5937-5
18
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.81
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xinxin Liu11518.79
Jianlin Guo2345.38
Ghulam Bhatti3201.31
Philip V. Orlik439059.37
Kieran Parsons53813.60