[Tinyos-devel] Lqi and CC2420

[Omprakash Gnawali]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Philip Levis <pal at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2008, at 11:59 AM, Andreas Koepke wrote:
...
>  The big impact is that it defines a LinkCost interface, which is now
>  expected to be a value component component reports based on the
>  source address of a packet. The assumption in your approach is that
>  it can be an HIL. For this to work, different link layers or link
>  estimators need to be designed that meet this interface.  Adding such
>  an interface to the core distribution should probably involve
>  discussions with net2 and core. The net2 WG spent a lot of time on
>  this topic, and settling on the white bit involved a great deal of
>  discussion back and forth with core[2,3].

A related discussion: if a chip provides RSSI and LQI, what would
LinkCost return and why?

- om_p