Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 27, No 1: July 2022

Secure and efficient routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks for IoT networks

Soukayna Riffi Boualam (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University)
Mariya Ouaissa (Moulay Ismail University)
Mariyam Ouaissa (Moulay Ismail University)
Abdellatif Ezzouhairi (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jul 2022

Abstract

R outing p rotocol for l ow p ower and l ossy (RPL) is destined to support the specific requirements of l ow p ower and l ossy n etworks (LLN). This type of network suffers from the problem of determining and securing a routing protocol to best suit an environment. This article aims to present a new version of the efficient and secure RPL protocol. The proposed scheme consists of two parts : i) Proposing a new o bjective f unction (OF) based RPL which combines three nodes and links metrics are: e xpected r etransmission n umber (ETX), h ope c ount (HC), and the residual energy in order to have a precise decision to c hoose the optimal way to the des tination. ii) To securing the new efficient RPL protocol by combining an improved Diffie - Hellman (DH) algorithm for a robust key exchange model with k eyed - h ash m essage a uthentication c ode (HMAC) to ensure the authentication and integrity of RPL data exchan ged. To verify the level of security, we apply a formal verification using AVISPA tool which indicate that the s ecure and e fficient RPL (SE-RPL) achieve all security requirements. Simulation results on the Contiki platform illustrate that our proposed is m ore efficient in terms of p acket d elivery r atio (PDR) and energy compared to others standard OF.

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