Building Sensor Networks

5	Traffic Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
Swastik Brahma, Mainak Chatterjee, and Shamik Sengupta

CONTENTS

5.1  Introduction

5.2  Related Research

5.3  Problem Description and Design Rationale

5.3.1  Design Rationale

5.3.2  Design Goals

5.4  Congestion Control Design

5.4.1  Overview

5.4.2  Congestion Control Algorithm

5.4.2.1  Estimation of Average Output Rate

5.4.2.2  Estimation of Average Input Rate

5.4.2.3  Controlling Efficiency

5.4.2.4  Controlling Fairness

5.4.2.5  Propagation of Rate Upstream

5.4.2.6  Estimation of Control Interval

5.5  Performance Evaluation

5.5.1  Goodput and Fairness

5.5.2  Subset of Senders

5.5.3  Link-Layer Retransmissions

5.6  Conclusions

References

In this chapter, we propose a distributed congestion ...