Mehmet C. Vuran Ian F. Akyildiz Abstract—Severe energy constraints and hence the low powercommunication requirements amplify the significance of theenergy efficient and preferably cross-layer error control mechanismsin Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). In this paper, a crosslayermethodology for the analysis of error control schemes inWSNs is presented such that the effects of multi-hop routing andthe broadcast nature of the wireless channel are investigated.More specifically, the cross-layer ...