Jaein Jeong and Cheng Tien EeDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceUniversity of California, BerkeleyMay 16, 2003 AbstractIn any network, there are two basic methods to recover errorneous packets. One way is to useAutomatic Repeat Request (ARQ), and another is Forward Error Correction (FEC). Since, in sen-sor networks, power is scarce and is primarily consumed by wireless transmission and reception,we would prefer to use FEC rather than ARQ. In this paper we determine empirica ...