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| Criteria | Protocol | Strategy |
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| Reliability | | Combined redundant data transmission over multipath routes and error correction algorithms |
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| Wu and Abouzeid [31] | Multipath cluster based data transmissions combined with error correction at each cluster head |
| Chen et al. [32] | Multipath geographical routing and error correction along the routing paths |
| Maimour et al. [33] | Comparison of different strategies for load repartition over the multiple routing paths |
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| Delay | | Design of delay sensitive MAC and routing protocols, and cross-layer approaches |
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| MAC protocols | DSMAC—Lin et al. [34] | Adjustable sleeping periods of sensor nodes according to the traffic conditions |
| DMAC—Lu et al. [35] | Eliminates the delays caused by sleepy nodes that are unaware of current data transmissions |
| Ceken [36] | TDMA-based delay aware MAC protocol that provides more time slots for time critical nodes |
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| Routing protocols | SPEED—He et al. [37] | Transmission delay of a packet depends on the distance to the sink and delivery speed |
| MMSPEED—Felemban et al. [38] | Multispeed transmission and the establishment of more than one path to the destination |
| Lu and Krishnamachari [39] | Joint routing and delay optimization |
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| Cross-layer approaches | Andreopoulos et al. [40] | Capacity-distortion optimization based on several parameters of routing, MAC, and physical layer |
| Van der Schaar and Turaga [41] | Packetization and packet retransmission optimization |
| Wang et al. [42] | Cross layer protocol for adaptive image transmission for quality optimization of wavelet transformed image |
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| Collaborative image routing | | Using spatiotemporal information form multiple correlated data sources |
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| Obraczka et al. [43] | Communication overhead reduction by collective reasoning based on correlated data |
| Medeiros et al. [44] | Cluster-based object tracking |
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