Applicability Statement for the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Networks
RFC 8036
Document | Type | RFC - Proposed Standard (January 2017; No errata) | |
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Authors | Nancy Cam-Winget , Jonathan Hui , Daniel Popa | ||
Last updated | 2017-01-12 | ||
Replaces | draft-popa-roll-applicability-ami | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
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Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Michael Richardson | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2015-11-18) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 8036 (Proposed Standard) | |
Action Holders |
(None)
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Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Alvaro Retana | ||
Send notices to | aretana@cisco.com | ||
IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | No IANA Actions |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) N. Cam-Winget, Ed. Request for Comments: 8036 Cisco Systems Category: Standards Track J. Hui ISSN: 2070-1721 Nest D. Popa Itron, Inc January 2017 Applicability Statement for the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Networks Abstract This document discusses the applicability of the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) networks. Status of This Memo This is an Internet Standards Track document. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8036. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2017 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Cam-Winget, et al. Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 8036 RPL Applicability for AMI January 2017 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2. Required Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.3. Out-of-Scope Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. Routing Protocol for LLNs (RPL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. Description of AMI Networks for Electric Meters . . . . . . . 4 3.1. Deployment Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. Smart Grid Traffic Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.1. Smart Grid Traffic Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.2. Smart Grid Traffic QoS Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.3. RPL Applicability per Smart Grid Traffic Characteristics 9 5. Layer-2 Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.1. IEEE Wireless Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.2. IEEE Power Line Communication (PLC) Technology . . . . . 9 6. Using RPL to Meet Functional Requirements . . . . . . . . . . 10 7. RPL Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 7.1. RPL Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 7.1.1. RPL Instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 7.1.2. DAO Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 7.1.3. Path Metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 7.1.4. Objective Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 7.1.5. DODAG Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 7.1.6. Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 7.1.7. Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 7.2. Description of Layer-2 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 7.2.1. IEEE 1901.2 PHY and MAC Sub-layer Features . . . . . 13 7.2.2. IEEE 802.15.4 (Amendments G and E) PHY and MAC Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 7.2.3. IEEE MAC Sub-layer Security Features . . . . . . . . 15 7.3. 6LowPAN Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 7.4. Recommended Configuration Defaults and Ranges . . . . . . 17 7.4.1. Trickle Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 7.4.2. Other Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 8. Manageability Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 9.1. Security Considerations during Initial Deployment . . . . 20 9.2. Security Considerations during Incremental Deployment . . 20Show full document text