Weight ranking mechanism of energy balancing routing metric for RPL protocol in smart grid communications

Abstract

Nowadays, many protocols have been designed to support smart grid system due to the massively of transferred data, reliability and the constrained of environment. RPL protocols have been designed to support with these constrains of networks: energy, memory, power and interconnection. To improve the performance, ETX and energy balance metrics must be use in RPL networks. In this paper, we propose Weight Ranking Mechanism of energy balancing routing metric algorithm which can prolong a better life-time as compared to the conventional RPL routing metric.