Cooperative Multi-Instance Multi-Application Routing for the Smart Grid

Abstract

The IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks (RPL) was designed to work with different Internet of Things (IoT) applications ranging from regular, to critical, to alarm/sporadic. Thanks to its ability to forward different traffic via different network logical subdivisions called instances. Cooperation among multiple instances running multiple applications can help in cases of congestion, which is the main factor affecting Quality of Service (QoS) in multi-application environments like Smart Grid (SG). We present a distributed and proactive approach to encourage cooperation among instances for handling congestion and dynamic traffic.