[net2-wg] BVR/S4

[Omprakash Gnawali]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Philip Levis <pal at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> On Feb 6, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Kaisen Lin wrote:
>
>> During the telecon, Phil said there was a BVR and S4 implementation in
>> contrib. There was also discussion of needing a lookup service for BVR
>> and S4 to work, and it seemed to cause some concern. Is there no
>> lookup
>> service implementation?
>
> As far as I know, there aren't lookup service implementations out
> there. I think Jorge Ortiz from Berkeley wrote one a few years ago,
> but I've never heard of the code being public. So the papers just
> evaluate routing under the assumption that there's been a lookup.
>

The lookup service can be complex and a protocol by itself. Where
should one implement this lookup service? What are the ways in which
one is allowed to add or delete a node? Another issue is if some part
of it is not implemented on the motes, it might be hard for us to
"standardize" it.

- om_p