New Real Evaluation Study of Rpl Routing Protocol Based on Cortex M3 Nodes of Iot-Lab Test Bed

RPL is a routing protocol for low power and lossy networks. It is an extensible proactive IPv6 distance vector protocol, which is a brand new proposed standard for including low power and lossy networks in the global realm of IPv6 networks. RPL has been implemented and tested in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) simulations with up to a thousand nodes. Recently, some of the research process has studied the operation of the protocol experimentally in small networks, which is not enough to illustrate the whole features of RPL. So, it is important to implement real large scenarios. In this paper, a new real evaluation study conducted in a large intensive test bed composed of more than 2728 wireless sensors nodes. Around 150 nodes tested the RPL characteristics and behavior on cortex M3-nodes giving a variety and intensive analysis. The results confirmed the stability of path length in dense networks with important control packet overhead while reduced packet delivery ratio. This work is a part of RPLstandardization process.