[Tinyos-devel] Request for comments: TEP-118

[Omprakash Gnawali]

Just to make this point clear - It is important to specify if the
updates are triggered on the same node. Deluge might break if this
behavior is unspecified and implemented with an incorrect assumption
what an implementation of Drip does.

- om_p

On Jan 14, 2008 5:05 PM, Razvan Musaloiu-E. <razvanm at cs.jhu.edu> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Omprakash Gnawali wrote:
>
> > Razvan pointed out:
> >
> > "I was looking at the TEP118 about dissemination and I didn't notice if it
> > specifies if the changed() from DisseminationValue is signaled also
> > locally for the motes that initiate an update."
> >
> > I guess it becomes easier for an application/applications on a mote to
> > learn about the updates in the network without having to treat
> > self-generated updates as a special case. Otherwise you would need a
> > different way to share the state between the component that is
> > tracking the updates and the component that is generating the updates.
>
> I agree that the self-generated updates should not be different from the
> ones from the network but I would also like to note that right now Drip
> doesn't behave in this way.
>
> --
> Razvan ME
>
>
> > On Jan 3, 2008 12:23 PM, Bhaskar Krishnamachari <bhaskark2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Dear TinyOS developers,
> >>
> >>   I have been asked to help shepherd TEP 118 on Dissemination.  This
> >> TinyOS enhancement proposal documents interfaces, components, and
> >> semantics for reliably delivering small pieces of data to every node
> >> in a network.
> >>
> >> Getting feedback from other TinyOS developers is an essential
> >> component of the TEP process. I am looking for some volunteers to read
> >> over this TEP and give comments to me. I will then work with the
> >> authors of the TEP to revise the proposal based on your comments.
> >>
> >> The current draft for the TEP can be found at
> >> http://tinyos.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/tinyos/tinyos-2.x/doc/html/tep118.html
> >>
> >> Please contact me by email directly at bkrishna at usc.edu or
> >> bhaskark2 at gmail.com if
> >> you are willing to help with this.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Bhaskar Krishnamachari,
> >> University of Southern California
> >>
> >
>