{"draft":"draft-ietf-roll-routing-metrics-18","doc_id":"RFC6551","title":"Routing Metrics Used for Path Calculation in Low-Power and Lossy Networks","authors":["JP. Vasseur, Ed.","M. Kim, Ed.","K. Pister","N. Dejean","D. Barthel"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"30","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks","abstract":"Low-Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) have unique characteristics\r\ncompared with traditional wired and ad hoc networks that require the\r\nspecification of new routing metrics and constraints.  By contrast,\r\nwith typical Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) routing metrics using\r\nhop counts or link metrics, this document specifies a set of link and\r\nnode routing metrics and constraints suitable to LLNs to be used by\r\nthe Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL).  \r\n[STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"March 2012","keywords":["[--------]","RPL","ROLL","LLN","Constrained based routing",""],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC6551","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc6551"}