Co-Op RPL: Co-operative IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks for IoT

Routing protocols have an important part to play in maintaining the interoperability of the components that make up the Internet of Things. To make communication amongst the Internet of Things (IoT) a reality, IETF-ROLL has standardised the routing protocol RPL for IoT networks. We have attempted to yield the advantage of the cooperative nature of nodes to further improve the energy efficiency of low-cost, low-power, low-processing embedded devices. To do this, algorithm Co-Op RPL selectively force nodes to enter sleep mode on a regular basis. We carried out a comprehensive simulation research utilising the Cooja simulator to investigate how a node's cooperative character affects its average routing metric, average power consumption, and average radio duty cycle. According to the simulation results, Co-Op RPL can cut average radio listen ratios by up to 8% and average radio transmission ratios by up to 13% when compared to normal RPL.