sensors Review Routing Protocols for Low Power and Lossy Networks in Internet of Things Applications José V. V. Sobral 1,2 , Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues 1,3,4,5,6,*,† , Ricardo A. L. Rabêlo 4 , Jalal Al-Muhtadi 5 and Valery Korotaev 6 1 Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +55-35-3471-9200 † Current address: Av. João de Camargo, 510-Centro, Santa Rita do Sapucaí-MG 37540-000, Brazil. Received: 23 March 2019; Accepted: 5 May 2019; Published: 9 May 2019 Abstract: The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications has taken the attention of several researchers. In an effort to provide interoperability and IPv6 support for the IoT devices, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) proposed the 6LoWPAN stack. However, the particularities and hardware limitations of networks associated with IoT devices lead to several challenges, mainly for routing protocols. On its stack proposal, IETF standardizes the RPL (IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks) as the routing protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLNs). RPL is a tree-based proactive routing protocol that creates acyclic graphs among the nodes to allow data exchange.