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Transport Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions

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  • Justin Jones
  • Mohammed Atiquzzaman

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Characteristics of wireless sensor networks, specifically dense deployment, limited processing power, and limited power supply, provide unique design challenges at the transport layer. Message transmission between sensor nodes over a wireless medium is especially expensive. Care must be taken to design an efficient transport layer protocol that combines reliable message delivery and congestion control with minimal overhead and retransmission. Sensor networks are created using low cost, low power nodes. Wireless sensors are assumed to have a finite lifetime; care must be taken to design and implement transport layer algorithms that allow maximum network lifetime. In this paper we present current and future challenges in the design of transport layers for sensor networks. Current transport layer protocols are compared based on how they implement reliable message delivery, congestion control, and energy efficiency.

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  • Justin Jones & Mohammed Atiquzzaman, 2007. "Transport Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, , vol. 3(1), pages 119-133, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:intdis:v:3:y:2007:i:1:p:119-133
    DOI: 10.1080/15501320601069861
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