Just a few quick pointers from the top of my head: Nice starting point to get a feeling for power/throughput trade-offs in low-power wireless networking: http

Just a few quick pointers from the top of my head: Nice starting point to get a feeling for power/throughput trade-offs in low-power wireless networking: http://sing.stanford.edu/pubs/sing-08-00.pdf http://sing.stanford.edu/pubs/sing-08-00.pdf Sensys 2008 paper about web services for tiny IoT systems: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/zhao/pubs/tws08.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/zhao/pubs/tws0... Proceedings of the IEEE 2010 article on IPv6 for low-power wireless: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jwhui/pubs/jhui-ieeeproc112010.pdf http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jwhui/pubs/jhui-ieeeproc112010.p... Sensys 2011 papers on trade-offs and interoperability of RPL mesh routing for low-power IPv6 and on TCP for low-power wireless: http://dunkels.com/adam/ko11beyond.pdf http://dunkels.com/adam/ko11beyond.pdf http://dunkels.com/adam/duquennoy11lossy.pdf http://dunkels.com/adam/duquennoy11lossy.pdf There are also two books on the subject and a bunch of relevant papers on the Contiki website: http://6lowpan.net/the-book/ http://6lowpan.net/the-book/ http://www.thenextinternet.org/ http://www.thenextinternet.org/ http://www.contiki-os.org/support.html http://www.contiki-os.org/support.html (Full disclosure: I'm a co-author on a bunch of those last pointers.)