Performance control in wireless sensor networks: the ginseng project - [Global communications news letter]
By Srean, Jorge Sá Silva, Lars Christian Wolf, Ruben Eiras, Thiemo Voigt, Utz Roedig, Vasos Vassiliou, Georg Hackenbroich · IEEE Communications Magazine · 2009
Research on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has mainly been focused on protocols and architectures for applications in which network performance assurances are not considered essential, such as agriculture and environmental monitoring. However, for many important areas, such as plant automation and health monitoring, performance assurances are crucial, especially for metrics such as delay and reliability.