Applicability Statement: The Use of the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) Protocol Suite in Home Automation and Building Control
RFC 7733
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. Brandt
Request for Comments: 7733 Sigma Designs
Category: Standards Track E. Baccelli
ISSN: 2070-1721 INRIA
R. Cragie
ARM Ltd.
P. van der Stok
Consultant
February 2016
Applicability Statement: The Use of the Routing Protocol
for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) Protocol Suite
in Home Automation and Building Control
Abstract
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance in the selection
and use of protocols from the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and
Lossy Networks (RPL) protocol suite to implement the features
required for control in building and home environments.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7733.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................4
1.1. Relationship to Other Documents ............................5
1.2. Terminology ................................................6
1.3. Required Reading ...........................................6
1.4. Requirements That Are Out of Scope .........................6
2. Deployment Scenario .............................................6
2.1. Network Topologies .........................................7
2.2. Traffic Characteristics ....................................8
2.2.1. General .............................................9
2.2.2. Source-Sink (SS) Communication Paradigm ............10
2.2.3. Publish-Subscribe (PS, or Pub/Sub)
Communication Paradigm .............................10
2.2.4. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Communication Paradigm ..........10
2.2.5. Peer-to-Multipeer (P2MP) Communication Paradigm ....11
2.2.6. Additional Considerations: Duocast and N-Cast ......11
2.2.7. RPL Applicability per Communication Paradigm .......11
2.3. Layer 2 Applicability .....................................13
3. Using RPL to Meet Functional Requirements ......................13
4. RPL Profile ....................................................14
4.1. RPL Features ..............................................14
4.1.1. RPL Instances ......................................15
4.1.2. Storing vs. Non-Storing Mode .......................15
4.1.3. DAO Policy .........................................15
4.1.4. Path Metrics .......................................15
4.1.5. Objective Function .................................16
4.1.6. DODAG Repair .......................................16
4.1.7. Multicast ..........................................16
4.1.8. Security ...........................................17
4.1.9. P2P Communications .................................21
4.1.10. IPv6 Address Configuration ........................21
4.2. Layer 2 Features ..........................................21
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