Application of Modified RPL Under VANET-WSN Communication Architecture

This paper focuses on the routing protocol for driving safety that vehicle collects state message from roadside sensors in VANET-WSN. Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL), a tree-based routing protocol, adapts naturally to our routing requirement. But RPL is designed for static wireless sensor network, so we need to modify RPL to fit in with high dynamic topology of VANET-WSN. For the first time, we utilize Geographical Information (GI) as the metric for RPL (GI-RPL), which lets RPL in a timely fashion. We also propose some strategies for tuning RPL in VANET-WSN. To demonstrate the performance of GI-RPL, we set up a simulation by using Cooja and compare with another modified RPL. The result of simulation shows that GI-RPL has high Package Delivery Ratio (PDR), reasonable overhead and low delay.