3rd International ICST Conference on COMmunication System SoftWAre and MiddlewaRE

Research Article

Implementation Aspects of Reliable Transport Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COMSWA.2008.4554477,
        author={Tuan Le Dinh and Alex Yifei Dong and Ren Liu and Sanjay Jha and Zvi Rosberg},
        title={Implementation Aspects of Reliable Transport Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on COMmunication System SoftWAre and MiddlewaRE},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={COMSWARE},
        year={2008},
        month={6},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/COMSWA.2008.4554477}
    }
    
  • Tuan Le Dinh
    Alex Yifei Dong
    Ren Liu
    Sanjay Jha
    Zvi Rosberg
    Year: 2008
    Implementation Aspects of Reliable Transport Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
    COMSWARE
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/COMSWA.2008.4554477
Tuan Le Dinh1,*, Alex Yifei Dong2,*, Ren Liu2,*, Sanjay Jha3,*, Zvi Rosberg2,*
  • 1: CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW, Australia
  • 2: CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
  • 3: School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW, Australia
*Contact email: tuan.ledinh@csiro.au, ydong@cse.unsw.edu.au, Ren.Liu@csiro.au, sanjay@cse.unsw.edu.au, zvi.rosberg@csiro.au

Abstract

Our previous study comparing analytically a comprehensive set of reliable data streaming protocols has shown that an hybrid protocol comprising stop-and-wait hop-by-hop ARQ with implicit ACK (SW HBH iACK ARQ) and event-tosink reliable transport (ESRT) is the best energy-efficient generic transport protocol for wireless sensor networks. The implementation of this hybrid protocol requires better understanding of when to switch between ESRT and SW HBH iACK ARQ, how to set the retransmission timeout and how to adapt the protocol parameters to the link qualities. Theses questions are studied by field experiments and simulation and the findings are reported in this paper.