Applicability Statement: The Use of the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) Protocol Suite in Home Automation and Building Control

Cragie, Robert; Stok, Peter van der; Brandt, Anders; Baccelli, Emmanuel

doi:10.17487/rfc7733

Cited by 9 publications

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“…The traffic patterns within this category vary widely [54] [58]. For example, the MP2P is used for communicating health conditions (e.g.…”

Section: Requirements Home Automation Building Automation Industrial mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The main purposes behind building automation are: reducing operating costs and energy consumption; enhancing occupant comfort; improving building service quality and the life cycle of utilities [55]. As with home automation, the majority of nodes in buildingautomation networks are Class 0 and Class 1 stationary devices with a small proportion of mobile nodes [55] [58].…”

Section: Requirements Home Automation Building Automation Industrial mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is expected that 30% of the traffic in building networks will be P2P with a typical frequency of one packet per minute [58]. For example, in a temperature-controlling application, a sensor will unicast periodically (e.g.…”

Section: Requirements Home Automation Building Automation Industrial mentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Survey of Limitations and Enhancements of the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks: A Focus on Core Operations

Ghaleb

Al‐Dubai

Ekonomou

et al. 2019

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

118

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Driven by the special requirements of the Lowpower and Lossy Networks (LLNs), the IPv6 Routing Protocol for LLNs (RPL) was standardized by the IETF some six years ago to tackle the routing issue in such networks. Since its introduction, however, numerous studies have pointed out that, in its current form, RPL suffers from issues that limit its efficiency and domain of applicability. Thus, several solutions have been proposed in the literature in an attempt to overcome these identified limitations. In this survey, we aim mainly to provide a comprehensive review of these research proposals assessing whether such proposals have succeeded in overcoming the standard reported limitations related to its core operations. Although some of RPL's weaknesses have been addressed successfully, the study found that the proposed solutions remain deficient in overcoming several others. Hence, the study investigates where such proposals still fall short, the challenges and pitfalls to avoid, thus would help researchers formulate a clear foundation for the development of further successful extensions in future allowing the protocol to be applied more widely.

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“…The traffic patterns within this category vary widely [54] [58]. For example, the MP2P is used for communicating health conditions (e.g.…”

Section: Requirements Home Automation Building Automation Industrial mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Requirements Home Automation Building Automation Industrial mentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Survey of Limitations and Enhancements of the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks: A Focus on Core Operations

Ghaleb

Al‐Dubai

Ekonomou

et al. 2019

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

118

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“…IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) is such a body consisting of network professionals, industries who manufacture communication systems and researchers to come up many protocols that are needed for IoT [3]. Some of their very important protocols include 6LoWPANs (Internet over Low Power Wireless Personal Area Network) [4], RPL (Routing protocol for LLNs) [5] and there are standards for their applicability in automation [6]. Many surveys list RPL [7,8] as the standard for WPAN as they are highly efficient and proactive in forming routes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing and Fine Tuning a Fire Safety Monitoring System for Smart Buildings using RPL Protocol

Anusha¹,

Pushpalatha²

2021

Proceedings of the Fist International Conference on Advanced Scientific Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology, ICA

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Internet of Things is a well established technology for a wide variety of applications like Smart Homes, Smart Buildings, Healthcare, Agriculture, Aviation, AMI etc. Fire tragedy is one of the most damaging risk that could occur for an industrial, commercial or residential building. IoT can be successfully employed in large buildings to safeguard the occupants and also its infrastructure. To this end, a smart building is equipped with large number of economic sensors that forms an LLN (low power lossy network) with border router for Internet connectivity. RPL is a routing protocol for LLNs that ensures that tiny battery operated sensor devices could form a network with automated address configuration, spontaneous topology formation, IPv6 connectivity and fail-safe operation. This paper proposes an enhanced application of RPL protocol which increases the longevity of the portable nodes and assures quick response during a fire. This paper explains the required IoT infrastructure along with an application that provides a live web page with color codes to monitor the temperature of the different regions of a smart building.

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“…The routing protocol for low‐power lossy networks (RPL) , designed for constrained devices and networks, is expected to find application in multiple areas of the Internet of Things. Being suitable for various fields like industrial networks , home and building automation , and advanced metering infrastructure networks , it is evident that RPL will be exposed to multiple different operating scenarios, some of which will expose it to malicious attacks.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mitigation of topological inconsistency attacks in RPL‐based low‐power lossy networks

et al. 2015

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SUMMARYRPL is a routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks. A malicious node can manipulate header options used by RPL to create topological inconsistencies, thereby causing denial of service attacks, reducing channel availability, increased control message overhead, and higher energy consumption at the targeted node and its neighborhood. RPL overcomes these topological inconsistencies via a fixed threshold, upon reaching which all subsequent packets with erroneous header options are ignored. However, this threshold value is arbitrarily chosen and the performance can be improved by taking into account network characteristics. To address this we present a mitigation strategy that allows nodes to dynamically adapt against a topological inconsistency attack based on the current network conditions. Results from our experiments show that our approach outperforms the fixed threshold and mitigates these attacks without significant overhead.

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Applicability Statement: The Use of the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) Protocol Suite in Home Automation and Building Control

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

A Survey of Limitations and Enhancements of the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks: A Focus on Core Operations

A Survey of Limitations and Enhancements of the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks: A Focus on Core Operations

Designing and Fine Tuning a Fire Safety Monitoring System for Smart Buildings using RPL Protocol

Mitigation of topological inconsistency attacks in RPL‐based low‐power lossy networks

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