TY - GEN
T1 - Towards full RPL interoperability
T2 - 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2012
AU - Ko, Jeong Gil
AU - Jeong, Jongsoo
AU - Park, Jongjun
AU - Jun, Jong Arm
AU - Kim, Naesoo
PY - 2012/12/1
Y1 - 2012/12/1
N2 - In this work we point out the issue of the IETF RPL routing protocol's two different downwards routing schemes not being able to interoperate with each other. This problem is less of an issue when low-power and lossy networks (LLNs) are deployed homogeneously but with the industrial kickoff and large scale deployments, the interoperability of heterogeneous, standards-compliant implementations will become a significant issue. To address this, we suggest two major changes to IETF RPL (RFC 6550). First we suggest that all storing mode nodes should hold the capability to understand and attach source routing headers that the non-storing mode nodes require to forward packets. Next, we suggest that RPL's nonstoring mode nodes should send their destination advertisement messages hop-by-hop, rather than the current end-to-end approach. We show, with two different IPv6 implementations in TinyOS and NanoQplus, that our suggestions help achieve high interoperability performance among different implementations for downwards traffic patterns.
AB - In this work we point out the issue of the IETF RPL routing protocol's two different downwards routing schemes not being able to interoperate with each other. This problem is less of an issue when low-power and lossy networks (LLNs) are deployed homogeneously but with the industrial kickoff and large scale deployments, the interoperability of heterogeneous, standards-compliant implementations will become a significant issue. To address this, we suggest two major changes to IETF RPL (RFC 6550). First we suggest that all storing mode nodes should hold the capability to understand and attach source routing headers that the non-storing mode nodes require to forward packets. Next, we suggest that RPL's nonstoring mode nodes should send their destination advertisement messages hop-by-hop, rather than the current end-to-end approach. We show, with two different IPv6 implementations in TinyOS and NanoQplus, that our suggestions help achieve high interoperability performance among different implementations for downwards traffic patterns.
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U2 - 10.1145/2426656.2426704
DO - 10.1145/2426656.2426704
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84873465840
SN - 9781450311694
T3 - SenSys 2012 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
SP - 353
EP - 354
BT - SenSys 2012 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Y2 - 6 November 2012 through 9 November 2012
ER -