Year: 2009
Type: report
Abstract: The application-specific routing requirements for Urban Low-Power and Lossy Networks (U-LLNs) are presented in this document.In the near future, sensing and actuating nodes will be placed outdoors in urban environments so as to improve people's living conditions as well as to monitor compliance with increasingly strict environmental laws.These field nodes are expected to measure and report a wide gamut of data (for example, the data required by applications that perform smart-metering or that monitor meteorological, pollution, and allergy conditions).The majority of these nodes are expected to communicate wirelessly over a variety of links such as IEEE 802.15.4,low-power IEEE 802.11, or IEEE 802.15.1 (Bluetooth), which given the limited radio range and the large number of nodes requires the use of suitable routing protocols.The design of such protocols will be mainly impacted by the limited resources of the nodes (memory, processing power, battery, etc.) and the particularities of the outdoor urban application scenarios.As such, for a wireless Dohler, et al.Informational [Page 1] RFC 5548 Routing Requirements for U-LLNs May 2009solution for Routing Over Low-Power and Lossy (ROLL) networks to be useful, the protocol(s) ought to be energy-efficient, scalable, and autonomous.This documents aims to specify a set of IPv6 routing requirements reflecting these and further U-LLNs' tailored characteristics.
DOI: 10.17487/rfc5548
Institutions: University of California, Berkeley, Orange (France)
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2281479772