A critical evaluation of the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL)

International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 365-372

  Clausen, Thomas ^a   Herberg, Ulrich ^b   Philipp, Matthias ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL EVALUATION; DEVELOPMENT CYCLE; INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCES; LOSSY NETWORKS; LOW POWER; NETWORK SIMULATORS; PROTOCOL DEVELOPMENT; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; REQUEST FOR COMMENTS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

MOBILE COMPUTING; ROUTING PROTOCOLS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 84255183030     PISSN: 21619646     EISSN: 21619654     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WiMOB.2011.6085374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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