Assessment of objective functions under mobility in RPL

Abstract

Due to the technological advancement in Low-power and Lossy Network (LLN), the sensor node mobility has become a basic requirement. Routing protocol designed for LLN must ensure certain requirements in a mobile environment such as reliability, flexibility, scalability to name a few. To meet the needs of LLN, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) released the standard IPv6 Routing Protocol for LLNs (RPL). RPL depends on Objective Function (OF) to select optimized routes from source to destination. However, the standard did not specify which OF to use. In this study, performance analysis of different OFs such as Objective Function zero (OF0), Energy-based Objective Function (OFE), Delay-Efficient Objective Function (OFDE), and Minimum Rank with Hysteresis Objective Function (MRHOF) is carried out under different mobility models, which makes this study unique. The metrics used to measure the performance are latency, packet delivery ratio (PDR), and power consumption. Simulation results demonstrate that under different mobility models, MRHOF achieved better results in terms of PDR and power consumption, while OFDE shows better results in terms of latency compared to other OFs. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018.