Performance Analysis of Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) for IoT Environment

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged over the last few years as an intriguing and promising paradigm that is expanding quickly and opening a wide range of applications for humanity. Due to the low power, lossy, and resource-limited nature of IoT devices, an effective routing protocol is very essential for which the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Network (RPL) was standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as RFC6550 in 2012. A path-constructing method termed as objective function (OF) is used inRPL to optimize the routing paths considering different metrics. The two standard objective functions used in RPL are Minimum Rank with Hysteresis Objective Function (MRHOF) and Objective Function Zero (OF0). To determine if the algorithm is appropriate for a variety of dynamic scenarios in IOT, this work focuses on performance analysis of RPL utilising thetwo-objective function. Network Convergence Time, Power Consumption, Control Overhead, Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), and Latency are the measures used to evaluate the protocol's performance. According to the findings, MRHOF provides superior network quality performance than OF0.