RESIDENT: a reliable residue number system-based data transmission mechanism for wireless sensor networks

Retransmission is the most common data transmission mechanism in wireless sensor networks, and can improve data transmission reliability via the acknowledgement mechanism. However, the simple acknowledgement retransmission is associated with some negative factors such as data delay, low throughput among others. To overcome the shortcomings of the retransmission mechanism, redundancy coding is introduced to wireless communications, which has been...