Load Balancing Objective Function in RPL draft-qasem-roll-rpl-load-balancing-01

Qasem, Mamoun; Al-Dubai, Ahmed; Romdhani, Imed; Ghaleb, Baraq

Abstract

This document proposes an extended Objective Function(OF) that balances the number of children nodes of the parent nodes to avoid the overloading problem and ensure node lifetime maximization in the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL). The standard OFs are used to build a Destination Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (DODAG) where the bottleneck nodes may suffer from unbalanced traffic load. As a result, a part of the network may be disconnected as the energy of the overloaded preferred parent node will drain much faster than other candidate parents. Thus, a new RPL metric has been introduced to balance the traffic load over the network. Finally, the potential extra overhead has been mitigated using a new utilization technique.

Citation

Qasem, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Ghaleb, B. (2018). Load Balancing Objective Function in RPL draft-qasem-roll-rpl-load-balancing-01. USA: IETF

• Report Type: Technical Standard
• Publication Date: Feb 10, 2018
• Deposit Date: Mar 29, 2018
• Keywords: Objective Function(OF), Lossy networks, IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1140334