A survey on cross-layer quality-of-service approaches in WSNs for delay and reliability-aware applications

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 525-552

  Al Anbagi, Irfan ^a   Erol Kantarci, Melike ^b   Mouftah, Hussein T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Clarkson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross layer approaches,; IEEE 802.15.4; latency; QoS; reliability; WSNs.

Indexed keywords

REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; STANDARDS; SURVEYS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

CROSS-LAYER APPROACH; CROSS-LAYER INTERACTION; IEEE 802.15.4; LATENCY; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; QUALITY OF SERVICE PROVISIONING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS); WSNS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84962200731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2014.2363950     Document Type: Article

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