Research Article
TRCCIT: Tunable reliability with Congestion Control for Information Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.WICON2010.8623, author={Faisal Karim Shaikh and Abdelmajid Khelil and Azad Ali and Neeraj Suri}, title={TRCCIT: Tunable reliability with Congestion Control for Information Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks}, proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Wireless Internet}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={WICON}, year={2010}, month={4}, keywords={Adaptive control Computer hacking Information rates Large-scale systems Programmable control Redundancy Scalability Telecommunication network reliability Transport protocols Wireless sensor networks}, doi={10.4108/ICST.WICON2010.8623} }- Faisal Karim Shaikh
Abdelmajid Khelil
Azad Ali
Neeraj Suri
Year: 2010
TRCCIT: Tunable reliability with Congestion Control for Information Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks
WICON
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.WICON2010.8623
Abstract
A core functionality of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is to transport information from the network to the application/user. The evolvable application reliability requirements and the fluctuating perturbations lead to continuous deviation between the attained and desired reliability. Using an existing approach that guarantees a highest reliability is not appropriate for WSN as this over-provisioning wastes the most valuable resources, e.g., energy. In this paper, we present a new approach called as Tunable Reliability with Congestion Control for Information Transport (TRCCIT) in WSN. To provide probabilistically guaranteed tunable reliability TRCCIT implements localized techniques such as probabilistic adaptive retransmissions, hybrid acknowledgment and retransmission timer management. TRCCIT pro-actively alleviates the network congestion by opportunistically transporting the information on multiple paths. TRCCIT fulfills application reliability requirements in a localized way, which is desirable for scalability and adaptability to large scale WSNs. Simulation results show that TRCCIT provides tunable reliability and efficiently mitigates the congestion.
