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A Survey of Transport Layer Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

by Saima Zafar
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 33 - Number 1
Year of Publication: 2011
Authors: Saima Zafar
10.5120/3989-5641

Saima Zafar . A Survey of Transport Layer Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Computer Applications. 33, 1 ( November 2011), 44-50. DOI=10.5120/3989-5641

@article{ 10.5120/3989-5641,
author = { Saima Zafar },
title = { A Survey of Transport Layer Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { November 2011 },
volume = { 33 },
number = { 1 },
month = { November },
year = { 2011 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 44-50 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume33/number1/3989-5641/ },
doi = { 10.5120/3989-5641 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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Abstract

The reliability of data transfer is vital for commercial and enterprise applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). Likewise, mission-oriented and critical military applications of these networks demand dependable and timely data transport. This reliability is required for in-bound data, from Internet node to sensor nodes which comprises of code updates, as well as for out-bound data from sensor nodes to base station or gateway which comprises of important data reported by sensor nodes. Although TCP is a time-tested transport layer protocol of Internet that ensures reliability, flow control and congestion control, being a heavy protocol, it is considered unsuitable for resource constrained sensor networks. As a result new transport layer protocols have been developed for these networks. Nonetheless efforts are directed towards making TCP suitable for sensor networks. This paper presents a survey of transport layer protocols and approaches to achieve reliable data communication in general wired-cum-wireless networks and particularly in WSN

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Wireless Sensor Networks Reliability Transport Layer TCP