TY - JOUR AU - Paek, Jeongyeup AB - DualMOP-RPL: Supporting Multiple Modes of Downward Routing in a Single RPL Network JEONGGIL KO, JONGSOO JEONG, JONGJUN PARK, and JONG ARM JUN, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute OMPRAKASH GNAWALI, University of Houston JEONGYEUP PAEK, Hongik University RPL is an IPv6 routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks (LLNs) designed to meet the requirements of a wide range of LLN applications including smart grid AMIs, home and building automation, industrial and environmental monitoring, health care, wireless sensor networks, and the Internet of Things (IoT) in general with thousands and millions of nodes interconnected through multihop mesh networks. RPL constructs treelike routing topology rooted at an LLN border router (LBR) and supports bidirectional IPv6 communication to and from the mesh devices by providing both upward and downward routing over the routing tree. In this article, we focus on the interoperability of downward routing and supporting its two modes of operations (MOPs) defined in the RPL standard (RFC 6550). Specifically, we show that there exists a serious connectivity problem in RPL protocol when two MOPs are mixed within a single network, even for standard-compliant implementations, which may result in network partitions. To address this problem, this article proposes DualMOP-RPL, an enhanced TI - DualMOP-RPL: Supporting Multiple Modes of Downward Routing in a Single RPL Network JF - ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN) DO - 10.1145/2700261 DA - 2015-03-02 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/dualmop-rpl-supporting-multiple-modes-of-downward-routing-in-a-single-wdcn1Ygips SP - 1 VL - 11 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -