Analyzing Delivery, Latency and Power Consumption

This work presents Collaborative Transport Control Protocol (CTCP), a new transport protocol for sensor networks. Itaims at providing end-to-end reliability and adapts itself to different applications through a two level mechanism ofreliability variation. CTCP achieves these properties using hop-by-hop acknowledgments and a storage controlalgorithm that operates at each node along a flow. It was observed that distributed fault recovery increases theaverage delivery rate and that duplication of storage responsibility minimizes the message loss. Its congestion controldifferentiates communication losses from buffer overflow. CTCP is called collaborative because all nodes detect andact on congestion control and also because it includes distributed storage responsibility. It is scalable andindependent of the underlying network layer. The protocol energy consumption overhead was calculated anddiscussed for two reliability levels