Browsing by Author "Ramachandran, Umakishore"

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    Network Stack Architecture for Future Sensors
    (2005-01-26) Johnson, David B.; Kumar, Rajnish; PalChaudhuri, Santashil; Ramachandran, Umakishore
    With wireless ad hoc sensor networks, there is simultaneously a need and an opportunity to optimize the protocol stack behavior to match the sensor-based applications. A general-purpose internet stack is neither appropriate nor sufficient to meet the needs of such applications. Motivated by this observation, we pose two related questions: (a) What is an appropriate layering of the protocol stack for future sensor networks? (b) How do we make the network stack tunable to a specific sensor application? We present the design of a new protocol stack, and we qualitatively argue that the new stack is more suitable to meet the demands of sensor network applications than traditional stacks.