A survey on enhancements of routing protocol for low power and lossy networks: focusing on objective functions

Abstract

People live in the age of smart devices. The concept of the internet of things (IoT) needs to be brought up whenever smart gadgets are shown. Furthermore, every gadget is gradually turning into a mobile node. These devices are utilized in low power and lossy networks because of their characteristics. Numerous obstacles exist in this field, motivating academics to focus on routing, connections, data transfer, and communications between nodes. In relation to this, the internet engineering task force (IETF) group already created a routing protocol for low power and lossy network (RPL), which was suggested for static networks and has since undergone numerous improvements. This article introduces the low power wireless network (LPWN) with a detailed model of the RPL protocol. It has also been considered how the destination-oriented directed acyclic graph (DODAG) is formed, and control messages are used to communicate between nodes in the RPL. The objective function (OF) is the center of the RPL. The principal objective functions objective function zero (OF0) and minimum rank with hysteresis objective function (MRHOF), which IETF group suggested, cannot function in the existing mobile network due to node disconnection and intermittent connectivity. The authors have enumerated and briefly discussed numerous RPL enhancements with new OFs. Numerous problems that the RPL routing protocol faced with mobility have been resolved.