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This chapter presents a comprehensive literature review on congestion control for WSNs and 6LoWPAN networks. \(\bullet \) It gives a review of performance metrics, operating systems and simulators used to evaluate and test proposed congestion control mechanisms as well as explaining which operating systems and simulators support the 6LoWPAN protocol stack.
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Al-Kashoash, H. (2020). Background and Literature Review. In: Congestion Control for 6LoWPAN Wireless Sensor Networks: Toward the Internet of Things. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17732-4_2
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