"Industrial Routing Requirements in Low Power and Lossy Networks", Dust Networks, Pascal Thubert, Sicco Dwars, Tom Phinney, 5-Jun-09. ( bytes)

The wide deployment of lower cost wireless devices will significantly improve the productivity and safety of the plants while increasing the efficiency of the plant workers by extending the information set available about the plant operations. The aim of this document is to analyze the functional requirements for a routing protocol used in industrial Low power and Lossy Networks (LLN) of field devices.

"Home Automation Routing Requirements in Low Power and Lossy Networks", Giorgio Porcu, 19-Nov-08. ( bytes)

This document presents home control and automation application specific requirements for Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks (ROLL). In a modern home, a high number of wireless devices are used for a wide set of purposes. Examples include actuators (relay, light dimmer, heating valve), sensors (wall switch, water leak, blood pressure) and advanced controllers. Because such devices only cover a limited radio range, routing is often required. The aim of this document is to specify the routing requirements for networks comprising such constrained devices in a home control and automation environment.

"Overview of Existing Routing Protocols for Low Power and Lossy Networks", Arsalan Tavakoli, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, P Levis, 24-Apr-09. ( bytes)

Low-power wireless devices, such as sensors, actuators and smart objects, present difficult constraints: very limited memory, little processing power, and long sleep periods. As most of these devices are battery-powered, energy efficiency is critically important. Wireless link qualities can vary significantly over time, requiring protocols to make agile decisions yet minimize topology change energy costs. Routing over such low power and lossy networks introduces requirements that existing routing protocols may not fully address. Using existing application requirements documents, this document derives a minimal and not exhaustive set of criteria for routing in low-power and lossy networks. It provides a brief survey of the strengths and weaknesses of existing protocols with respect to these criteria. From this survey it examines whether existing and mature IETF protocols can be used without modification in these networks, or whether further work is necessary. It concludes that no existing IETF protocol meets the requirements of this domain.

"Terminology in Low power And Lossy Networks", JP Vasseur, 7-May-09. ( bytes)

The documents defines a terminology for discussing routing requirements and solutions for networks referred to as Low power and Lossy Networks (LLN). A LLN is typically composed of many embedded devices with limited power, memory, and processing resources interconnected by a variety of links. There is a wide scope of application areas for LLNs, including industrial monitoring, building automation (e.g. Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning, lighting, access control, fire), connected home, healthcare, environmental monitoring, urban sensor networks, energy management, assets tracking, refrigeration.

"Building Automation Routing Requirements in Low Power and Lossy Networks", Jerry Martocci, Nicolas Riou, Pieter Mil, Wouter Vermeylen, 7-Aug-09. ( bytes)

The Routing Over Low power and Lossy network (ROLL) Working Group has been chartered to work on routing solutions for Low Power and Lossy networks (LLN) in various markets: Industrial, Commercial (Building), Home and Urban networks. Pursuant to this effort, this document defines the IPv6 routing requirements for building automation.

"Routing Metrics used for Path Calculation in Low Power and Lossy Networks", JP Vasseur, Dust Networks, 29-Apr-09. ( bytes)

This document specifies routing metrics to be used in path calculation for Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks (ROLL). Low power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) have unique characteristics compared with traditional wired networks or even with similar ones such as mobile ad-hoc networks. By contrast with typical Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) routing metrics using hop counts or link attributes, this document specifies a set of routing metrics suitable to LLNs.

"RPL: Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks", Tim Winter, ROLL Team, 3-Aug-09. ( bytes)

This document specifies the Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL), in accordance with the requirements described in [I-D.ietf-roll-building-routing-reqs], [I-D.ietf-roll-home-routing-reqs], [I-D.ietf-roll-indus-routing-reqs], and [RFC5548].

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