Issues of QoS Multipath Routing Protocol for SEN´s Data Networks

This paper presents several considerations that must be taken into account in the design of a QoS multipath routing protocol suitable for Smart Electricity Networks (SENs). The main goal is the analysis of routing requirements that will make possible a future formal specification of a QoS aware multipath routing algorithm for the coming SENs´ data networks in high voltage segment, whose long-distance mesh data networks will be a future challenge for engineering and research. In this paper, the study is focused on requirements specification regarding to distance-vector routing algorithms that reduce the overall overhead of routing information needed in the network, preserving the scalability feature.