RPL - Routing Over LoW power Lossy networks

Along with the effort on the Internet of Things of other workgroups like 6LoWPAN and CoRE, IETF formed ROLL (Routing Over LoW power Lossy networks) to analyze the requirements for and standardize a routing protocol for the wireless embedded internet. As the outcome of an evaluation of existing routing protocols for MANET like AODV, OLSR or DYMO it became clear that none of these would match the requirements. Therefor ROLL workgroup has specified the Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy Networks (RPL). The design of RPL is closely related to the work of the 6LoWPAN workgroup. You will have to consider the architecture of such a RPL network, the applied metrics and the routing protocol itself. Finally, the goal of this work will be a full implementation of the current RPL Internet-Draft based on the DES-Sensor nodes and µkleos microkernel.

ROLL workgroup: http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/roll/

RPL Draft: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-roll-rpl/ 

µkleos: https://ukleos.imp.fu-berlin.de