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

[Omprakash Gnawali]

On Feb 6, 2008 5:08 PM, Avinash Sridharan <avinash.sridharan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was going through the description of TEP 118 and one thing that
> immediately struck me was to use the dissemination interface 'primarily' for
> querying in sensor networks ( this has been highlighted in the
> introduction). After a closer look I realised that the interface is designed
> to purely support flooding based querying mechanisms and not necessarily
> mechanisms such as random waslks, acquire, expanding rin search  etc .. .
> Moreover, the primary focus seems to be on applications such as "Deluge" and
> not  querying.

Hmm. I re-read the introduction and I didn't feel like query is
emphasized that much. It seems that query is mentioned as one of the
possible uses of dissemination and the introduction focuses on
delivery of data to the network.

I think it is worth thinking about the issue you raised about other
types of query in a different context. The question is: is there an
interface for querying or searching in a TinyOS 2.x network? The
answer is no, so far...

- om_p