Survey on routing protocols for Internet of Things

Abstract

As Wireless Sensor Network nodes are ID based network, it would be difficult to monitor the status of the same when it is connected to Internet of Things. So gateway is required to connect the network with Internet. In order to access and manage the network remotely, it is good to have IP based devices connected with each other. As IPv4 is being depleted, IPv6 was a solution for much larger address space. IP connectivity in sensor networks mainly depend on two IETF standards: 6LoWPAN and RPL. Routing protocol in 6LoWPAN is very precise due to limited node's potential. Existing protocol of 6LoWPAN does not satisfy Low power Lossy networks. IETF came up with IPv6 routing protocol for low power Lossy networks called RPL.