ESRT: event-to-sink reliable transport in wireless sensor networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) 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. 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. However, the absence of reliable transport altogether can seriously impair event detection. 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. In order to address this need, a new reliable transport scheme for WSN, the event-to-sink reliable transport (ESRT) protocol, is presented in this paper. ESRT is a novel transport solution developed to achieve reliable event detection in WSN with minimum e...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: MOBIHOC
• Authors: Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam, Özgür B. Akan, Ian F. Akyildiz
• Keywords: Conventional End-to-end Reliability, MOBIHOC 2003, Reliable Event Detection, Wireless Networks, WSN Regime