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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2021)

Published: December 31, 2021

Pages: 198-203

Original Article

Strategies for Enhancing the Performance of (RPL) Protocol

Rana H. Hussain 1
1Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Thi-Qar, Iraq
History
  • Received: June 23, 2021
  • Revised: October 9, 2021
  • Accepted: October 9, 2021
  • Available Online: October 10, 2021
DOI

https://doi.org/10.37917/ijeee.17.2.22

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks have many limitations such as power, bandwidth, and memory, which make the routing process very complicated. In this research, a wireless sensor network containing three moving sink nodes is studied according to four network scenarios. These scenarios differ in the number of sensor nodes in the network. The RPL (Routing Protocol for low power and lossy network) protocol was chosen as the actual routing protocol for the network based on some routing standards by using the Wsnet emulator. This research aims to increase the life of the network by varying the number of nodes forming it. By using different primitive energy of these nodes, this gives the network to continue working for the longest possible period with low and fair energy consumption between the nodes. In this work, the protocol was modified to make the sink node move to a specific node according to the node’s weight, which depends on the number of neighbors of this node, the number of hops from this node to the sink node, the remaining energy in this node, and the number of packets generated in this node. The simulation process of the RPL protocol showed good results and lower energy consumption compared to previous researches.

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