Johnson, David B.Kumar, RajnishPalChaudhuri, SantashilRamachandran, Umakishore2017-08-022017-08-022005-01-26Johnson, David B., Kumar, Rajnish, PalChaudhuri, Santashil, et al.. "Network Stack Architecture for Future Sensors." (2005) https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96335.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96335With 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.9 ppengYou are granted permission for the noncommercial reproduction, distribution, display, and performance of this technical report in any format, but this permission is only for a period of forty-five (45) days from the most recent time that you verified that this technical report is still available from the Computer Science Department of Rice University under terms that include this permission. All other rights are reserved by the author(s).Technical reportTR04-447