Event-to-sink reliable transport in wireless sensor networks

Akan O., Akyildiz I.

IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING, vol.13, no.5, pp.1003-1016, 2005 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 13 Issue: 5
  • Publication Date: 2005
  • Doi Number: 10.1109/tnet.2005.857076
  • Journal Name: IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.1003-1016
  • Keywords: congestion control, energy conservation, event-to-sink reliability, reliable transport protocols, wireless sensor networks
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are event-based systems that rely on the collective effort of several microsensor nodes. Reliable event detection at the sink is based on collective information provided by source nodes and not on any individual report. However, 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. Hence, the WSN paradigm necessitates a collective event-to-sink reliability notion rather than the traditional end-to-end notion. To the best of our knowledge, reliable transport in WSN has not been studied from this perspective before.