Delay aware reliable transport in wireless sensor networks

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2007-10-01

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Gungor, Vehbi C.
Akan, Oezguer B.

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Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are event-based systems that rely on the collective effort of several sensor nodes. Reliable event detection at the sink is based on collective information provided by the sensor nodes and not on any individual sensor data. Hence, conventional end-to-end reliability definitions and solutions are inapplicable in the WSN regime and would only lead to a waste of scarce sensor resources. Moreover, the reliability objective of WSN must be achieved within a certain real-time delay bound posed by the application. Therefore, the WSN paradigm necessitates a collective delay-constrained event-to-sink reliability notion rather than the traditional end-to-end reliability approaches. To the best of our knowledge, there is no transport protocol solution which addresses both reliability and real-time delay bound requirements of WSN simultaneously.

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Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/64589

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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Article