Title Routing Metrics Used for Path Calculation in Low-Power and Lossy Networks
Acronym IETF RFC 6551
Document Type Standard
Committee INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE (IETF)
Published Year 2012
Link https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6551
Abstract

Low-Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) have unique characteristics compared with traditional wired and ad hoc networks that require the specification of new routing metrics and constraints. By contrast, with typical Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) routing metrics using hop counts or link metrics, this document specifies a set of link and node routing metrics and constraints suitable to LLNs to be used by the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL).