Unit:
Speciality Intelligent Management of Renewable Energy SystemsLibrary of the School of Agricultural Development, Nutrition and Sustainability
Author:
Vougioukas Ioannis
VOUGIOUKAS IOANNIS
Supervisors info:
Δρ. Θεόδωρος Ζαχαριάδης, καθηγητής Γενικού Τμήματος, Μέλος συντονιστικής επιτροπής
Δρ. Λάμπρος Σαράκης, αναπληρωτής καθηγητής Γενικού Τμήματος, Διευθυντής προγράμματος
Original Title:
Ανάπτυξη σύνθετων μετρικών δρομολόγησης για το πρωτόκολλο RPL
Translated title:
Development of complex routing metrics for the RPL protocol
Summary:
The distributed and dynamic topology of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) introduces very special requirements in routing protocols that should be met. One of the most important features of a routing protocol, in order for that to be efficient for WSNs, is the efficient management of the energy consumption and the extension of the network’s lifetime.
The RPL protocol (IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low- Power and Lossy Networks), which has been standardized by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), provides IPv6 based routing for wireless sensor networks with limited resources. This thesis aims to study the already standardized routing metrics, as well as the development of complex metrics based on an additive combination of fundamental metrics, and to experimentally evaluate the performance of the RPL protocol, in cases where the routing procedure takes into account the available energy of each node.
The experimental evaluation of RPL routing performance is implemented on the operating system Contiki. Contiki is an open source operating system for the "Internet of Things". Moreover, the simulator Cooja, which is used for this purpose, provides a simulation environment that enables us to monitor applications that are implemented on large scale networks. Furthermore, we are using Wireshark, which is a free and open source network protocol analyzer which monitors packet traffic in the network.
Main subject category:
Technology - Computer science
Keywords:
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs), routing protocol RPL, routing metrics, simulation, Internet of Things (IoT)
