• Introduction (11)
• Wireless Sensor Network and Real Time Systems Overview (13)
  • Wireless Sensor Network Background (13)
  • Architecture of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) (14)
    • Sensor platforms (14)
  • Wireless Sensor Network Applications (15)
  • Factors influencing sensor network design (16)
  • Real-Time Systems (18)
  • Real-Time Communications (22)
  • Challenges with wireless real-time communication (25)
  • Problem Formulation (26)
  • Chapter Summary (28)
• Reliable Transfer on Wireless Sensor Networks (29)
  • Introduction (29)
  • Single Packet Delivery (31)
    • MAC layer retransmission (31)
    • End-to-end retransmissions (32)
    • Using multiple paths (33)
  • Packet Block Delivery (33)
  • Packet Stream Delivery (34)
  • Transport Control Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (34)
    • PSFQ: Pump Slowly, Fetch Quickly (35)
    • GARUDA (36)
    • RMST (37)
    • ART (38)
    • RBC (39)
    • STCP (40)
    • DTSN (43)
    • ESRT (46)
    • Other Protocols (48)
  • Conclusions (49)
• Erasure Code (52)
  • Introduction (52)
  • Reed-Solomon Coding for Fault-Tolerance in RAID-like Systems (53)
    • Problem Identification (53)
    • General Strategy (55)
    • Reed-Solomon Algorithm (57)
      • Vandermonde Matrix and Calculating and Maintaining Checksum Words: (58)
      • Arithmetic over Galois Fields: (60)
    • Reed-Solomon Algorithm Summarization (64)
  • Modifications for Wireless Sensor Networks (66)
  • Algorithm of erasure coding in sensor networks (71)
  • Chapter Summary (72)
• Cauchy Reed-Solomon Codes for Reliable Transfer on WSN (74)
  • Introduction (74)
  • Terminology (75)
  • Cauchy Matrices (78)
  • Cauchy Reed-Solomon Coding (81)
  • Simulation Model (87)
    • Castalia Structure (87)
    • Simulation Scenario (89)
  • Chapter Summary (100)
• Conclusions and Future Work (101)
  • Conclusions (101)
  • Future work (102)
• References (102)
  • كلمات كليدي: :قابلیت اطمینان، تحمل خطا، بی درنگی، بازیابی اطلاعات، افزونگی داده، Erasure Code، بازیابی اطلاعات. (114)