ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces reliable and energy-efficient networking protocol designs in wireless sensor networks. It present the following three types of representative design: low-duty-cycle network protocol design; exploring link correlation for energy-efficient network protocol design; and energy-efficient opportunistic routing protocol design. Wireless sensor networks have been proposed for use in many challenging long-term applications such as military surveillance, habitat monitoring, infrastructure protection, scientific exploration, participatory urban sensing, and home energy management. In contrast, wireless networks with intermittent receivers have caught unproportionately little attention, despite the known fact that communication energy is consumed mostly for being ready for potential incoming packets, a problem commonly referred as idle listening. Wireless sensor networks normally work under 2.4 GHz radio spectrum, which is heavily used by lots of other devices, such as microwave ovens, medical diathermy machines, cordless phones, bluetooth devices, NFC devices, and wireless access points.
