Paper Info
Title
Trickle-L2: Lightweight link quality estimation through Trickle in RPL networks
Abstract
Lightweight link quality estimation is crucial in wireless sensor networks. Indeed, devices with limited capabilities shall trade off between consuming their resources to maintain a precise view of the neighbours' link quality and to build routes almost blindly. For instance, the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL), which has been recently standardised by the IETF to enable IPv6-based sensor networks, only estimates the quality of the links used to deliver data packets. However, this solution has been demonstrated to cause periods of routing instability and reduced packet delivery rates since it estimates only the quality of utilised links. To address this issue in this work we propose a lightweight link estimation procedure that exploits Trickle-based topology maintenance techniques to simultaneously estimate link qualities and propagate routing information. Our proposed scheme has been integrated in the Contiki's RPL prototype implementation. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposal is capable of measuring the quality of the links to neighbours with small overhead, which results into better routing decisions and improved packet delivery rates.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/WoWMoM.2014.6918951
A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
radio links,routing protocols,telecommunication network topology,wireless sensor networks,Contiki,IETF,IPv6-based sensor networks,RPL prototype implementation,lightweight link quality estimation,packet delivery rates,routing instability,routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks,trickle-based topology maintenance techniques,utilised links,wireless sensor networks,Contiki OS,Cooja,LLN,RPL,link quality estimation,probing,reliability
Conference
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.66
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ancillotti, E.120213.66
Raffaele Bruno2123290.09
Marco Conti33862204.60
Mingozzi, E.4110.66