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Congestion detection and control is considered as major challenge to implementation of real-time transmission in wireless sensor network, particularly under the situations where both the total packet loss and the real-time packet deadline are required to take care of. The demand of congestion detection and control is hard, if not impossible at all, to meet in a single transmission protocol layer in wireless sensor network due to its hop-by-hop transmission pattern. The work presented in this paper shows that the cross-layer approach combining a performance-differentiated scheduling in routing layer and a priority-based packet dropping policy at control layer can provide a key support to congestion control in implementation of real-time transmission in wireless sensor networks. Simulation experiments on TinyOS/TOSSIM platform shows an encouraging result from the proposed approach in providing congestion detection and control in a wireless sensor network with real-time support.
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Fan, A., Tang, Y., Bu, C. (2012). A Cross-Layer Approach for Congestion Control in Real-Time Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Wang, X., Zheng, R., Jing, T., Xing, K. (eds) Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. WASA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7405. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31869-6_63
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