[net2-wg] Rough summary of requirements

[Rodrigo Fonseca]

Hi,

please see updated page for the Link Layer Requirements, where I added
a rought (and editable!) summary of the features that appeared in the
discussions. These can guide our conversation today.

Thanks,
Rodrigo

see http://tinyos.stanford.edu:8000/Net2WG/Topics/LinkLayerRequirements
for latest version:

Summary

    * Message Pool/Futures (Boomerang)
    * Neighbor Table (Schedule information/ Link Estimation
information) (Net2 Collection, Boomerang)
    * Reliability mechanism/ feedback (Boomerang, Anycast)
    * Acks with payload (Anycast)
    * Timestamping / Late stamping of other information (events?
callbacks?) (Fusion, Boomerang, Tenet, Flush)
    * Priority mechanism (Fusion, Boomerang)
    * Cancelling (Dissemination)
    * Introspection
          o timing information (Flush)
          o queue information (Flush)
          o medium congestion (Fusion)
    * Rate Limiting (Flush, Fusion)
    * Snooping (Flush, Fusion)
    * Naming
          o raw addressing exported (Boomerang)
          o handle (Berkeley's SP)
          o UART not an address, but interface (Tenet)