Figure 27 Energy Consumption vs. Num of Required Report 8. RELATED WORK Real-time protocols play an important role to guarantee the effectiveness of the in- teractions between wireless sensor networks and the physical world. RAP [Lu et al. 2002] uses a novel velocity monotonic scheduling to prioritize the real-time traf- fic and enforce such prioritization through a differentiated MAC Layer. Woo and Culler [Woo and Culler 2001] propose an adaptive rate control scheme to achieve fairness among the nodes with different distances to a base station. Huang [Huang et al. 2003] et al. propose the Mobicast protocol to provide just-in-time information dissemination to nodes in a mobile delivery zone. Given the complete knowledge of traffic pattern, Li [Li et al. 2005] proposes a SLF message scheduling algorithm to exploit spatial channel reuse, so that deadline misses can be reduced. The Lightning protocol [Wang et al. 2004] localizes the acoustic source with a bounded delay regardless of the node density. Carley [Carley et al. 2003] designs a periodic message scheduler to provide a contention-free predicable medium access control. Somasundara [Somasundara et al. 2004] proposes a mobile agent scheduling algo- rithm to collect the buffered sensor data, before the buffer overflow occurs at the sensor nodes. Vasudevan [Vasudevan et al. 2003] proposes an application-specific compression for time delay estimation in sensor networks, and He [He et al. 2004] adaptively performs application independent data aggregation in a time sensitive manner. Nam [Nam et al. 2005] proposes time-parameterized sensing task model for real-time tracking. Eswaran [Eswaran et al. 2005] designs and implements a reservation-based real-time operating system, with multi-hop networking support for use in wireless sensor networks. Yang [Yang and Vaidya 2004] proposes a wakeup scheme that assists balancing energy saving and end-to-end delay. Felemban [Felem-