Bursty traffic over bursty links

Authors: Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Olaf Landsiedel, Jó Ágila Bitsch Link, Stefan Götz, Klaus Wehrle - Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems 2009 cited by 110

Accurate estimation of link quality is the key to enable efficient routing in wireless sensor networks. Current link estimators focus mainly on identifying long-term stable links for routing. They leave out a potentially large set of intermediate links offering significant routing progress. Fine-grained analysis of link qualities reveals that such intermediate links are bursty, i.e., stable in the short term.