[Tinyos Core WG] Re: [Tinyos-devel] starting radio

[Philip Levis]

On Feb 8, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Joe Polastre wrote:

> Why do either of these protocols care?  Seems like a design flaw,
> especially in a system that includes a queue.
>
> Then again, this is why SP is valuable........
>
> But last I checked, T2 barfs on time-synchronized protocols that turn
> the radio on and off.
>
> -Joe
>
> On 2/8/07, David Gay <dgay42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The TinyOS 2 network protocols have an inconsistent view of how the
>> radio should be started:
>>
>> - dissemination: starts the radio automatically
>> - collection (well, Ctp at least): doesn't start the radio (but does
>> track its state)
>>
>> Is there a reason for this difference, and if not, what's the  
>> expected
>> behaviour here? (i.e., whose job is it to start the radio in T2?)
>>
>> David
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As I said on the core list when this came up, dissemination is pretty  
clearly doing the wrong thing.

Phil