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Smart grid (SG) has emerged to address most of the shortcomings of the existing electrical grid by integrating information and communication technologies to improve its performance in terms of reliability, efficiency, and security. The smart grid enables a two-way flow of electricity and data using digital communication technology. Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is a fundamental component of smart grid that provides a two-way communication flow between the power utilities and meters at the customer side. In recent years, there has been a great deal of interest in the design of an efficient routing protocol to meet the requirements of AMI networks. The IPv6 routing protocol for low power and lossy networks (RPL) has been recently proposed and standardized by the IETF ROLL working group to meet the requirements of Low power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) involved in different application domains. In RPL, routes are constructed based on an Objective Function (OF) and a variety of metrics and constraints. Given the importance of RPL protocol in AMI networks, this paper provides a comprehensive study of the performance analysis of the two main objective functions commonly used in RPL (OF0 and MRHOF) in the context of AMI networks.
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This work was supported by The Moroccan National Center for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST).
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Bouani, A., Benhaddou, D., Maissa, Y.B., Tamtaoui, A., Hammouch, A. (2021). Performance Analysis of RPL Protocol for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI): Objective Functions Impact on Data and Control Traffic. In: Elbiaze, H., Sabir, E., Falcone, F., Sadik, M., Lasaulce, S., Ben Othman, J. (eds) Ubiquitous Networking. UNet 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12845. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86356-2_2
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