IMPACT - A Family of Cross-Layer Transmission Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

For economic reasons sensor networks are often implemented with resource constrained micro-controllers and low-end radio transceivers. Consequently, communication is inherently unreliable and especially multi-hop communication suffers severely from packet losses. Transmission protocols that rely on implicit acknowledges for multi-hop communication are energy efficient but require symmetric communication links to work properly. In this paper we introduce IMPACT, a family of transmission protocols that rely on implicit acknowledges and employ a cross layer approach to handle asymmetric links.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: IPCCC
• Authors: Marcin Brzozowski, Reinhardt Karnapke, Jörg Nolte
• Keywords: Communications, Implicit Acknowledges, IPCCC 2007, Multi-hop Communication, Multi-hop Communication Suffers