SummaryAn event-to-sink reliable transport (ESRT) control scheme was recently proposed to address the event-to-sink reliability issues in wireless sensor network (WSN). In this paper, we study the performance of ESRT in the presence of 'over-demanding' event reliability, using both the analytical and simulation approaches. We show that the ESRT protocol does not achieve optimum reliability and begins to fluctuate between two inefficient network states. With insights from update mechanism in ESRT, we propose a new algorithm, called enhanced ESRT (E 2 SRT), to solve the 'over-demanding' event reliability problem and to stabilize the network. Simulation results show that E 2 SRT outperforms ESRT in terms of both reliability and energy consumption in the presence of 'overdemanding' event reliability. Besides, it ensures robust convergence in the presence of dynamic network environments.
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