[net2-wg] beginnings of the link estimation protocol TEP

[Philip Levis]

On Feb 1, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Rodrigo Fonseca wrote:

>> Besides, the protocol doesn't actually sleep at all.  In fact, its  
>> the opposite.
>
> That's not necessarily true. There are no periodic timing behaviors
> specified, and in fact CTP's implementation has Trickle-like timers
> that  scale the beaconing down to really long intervals. So, if your
> network is not sending much data, the beaconing will be very
> infrequent. It is not precluding smart sleep scheduling (which we did
> not do).

How about BEEP: Bidirectional ETX Exchange Protocol? Or BLIP:  
Bidirectional Link Information Protocol?  Or L-QIP: Link-Quality  
Information Protocol?

Sorry, SIGCOMM was yesterday so I am reveling in having a moment to  
waste my time on something silly.

Phil