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

[Philip Levis]

On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Omprakash Gnawali wrote:

>
>> How about BEEP: Bidirectional ETX Exchange Protocol? Or BLIP:
>> Bidirectional Link Information Protocol?  Or L-QIP: Link-Quality
>> Information Protocol?
>
> Some other possibilities:
>
> L-QEP: Link Quality Exchange Protocol
> L-REP: Link Reliability Exchange Protocol
> LEEP: Link ETX Exchange Protocol
> LDP:  Link Discovery Protocol
> LIE: Link Information Exchange

Hm. I actually think that LDP touches on an important point -- and  
one which CTP takes advantage of. That is, the fact that the protocol  
can discover as well as estimate links (as opposed to ack-based  
estimates). On the other hand, there technically aren't *links* in a  
broadcast-based wireless network. Maybe

NDEP: Neighbor Discovery and Estimation protocol

Phil