Abstract: Industrial Revolution 4.0 promises an overall improvement to the communications technology by improving on the quality and flexibility of IoT application deployment. Currently, most of these applications are embedded devices from various manufacturers, networks, and technologies. As such, it would be total chaos of just getting the various and myriad devices and technologies to work together, let alone making them to work in perfect harmony. Regardless, the IoT espouses on the seamless integration and interoperability of the said devices and technologies. In realizing this goal, it would be imperative to say that the ability of the IoT system in adopting and adapting to new devices, services, and application is crucial, while at the same time it would not be in any way jeopardizing or compromising the existing system, especially the routing protocol. In view of the IP-based communication technology in WSN, the 6LoWPAN network has been chosen for the task, and the RPL protocol has been strongly considered for the 6LoWPAN solution. However, the RPL overhead tends to be spiralling upwards when additional information transmission occurs. In mitigating this anomaly, therefore, the HRPL was proposed to enhance the RPL protocol in reducing routing overhead. This study focusses on the performance analysis of RPL and HRPL based on the physical experimentation of the 6LoWPAN network in a real scenario. The results show HRPL protocol outperforms in all the performance-tested evaluations: CTO (38.7%), latency (26%), and convergence time (37%). It was also discovered that the number of DIS and DAO (RPL control message) packet is significantly reduced when the DIO message was reduced. At the same time, latency and convergence time also registered a decrease in their respective values correspondingly. Meanwhile, based on our observation, several experiments are needed to investigate how variants topology affect HRPL capabilities.

Nin Hayati Mohd Yusoff, Nurul Azma Zakaria and Adil Hidayat Rosli, “Design and Implementation of 6LoWPAN Application: A Performance Assessment Analysis” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 11(8), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110834

@article{Yusoff2020,
title = {Design and Implementation of 6LoWPAN Application: A Performance Assessment Analysis},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110834},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110834},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {11},
number = {8},
author = {Nin Hayati Mohd Yusoff and Nurul Azma Zakaria and Adil Hidayat Rosli}
}