## 4 Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Communication Scheme
### Resource Reservation Based on Priority Queue
In the future, we will design a parameter update strategy to configure parameters dynamically during runtime based on knowledge learned from previous experiences and evaluate AFTCS (e.g., in terms of energy efficiency) by means of more extensive simulations. We also consider implementing and testing the scheme on real-life BSNs that can take advantage of the adaptive and flexible fault-tolerant communication enabled by AFTCS. ## Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 60703101 and No. 60903153, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. ## References and Notes

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