[Tinyos-devel] Re: CTP - day and night

[Philip Levis]

On Jan 3, 2008, at 9:16 PM, Omprakash Gnawali wrote:

> I ran CTP for 24 hrs - 4pm till 4pm the following day. The result
> tagged "aaa9" has been added to this page:
> http://enl.usc.edu/~om_p/net2/ctp4bitle/figures.html
>
> In order to put results from experiments done in the past on the same
> graphs, I have changed the time scale for the past results. You can
> read this on the key for the lines on the graph. For example, time * 2
> means time scaled by 2. The results seem qualitatively similar to aa9,
> which was the previous long experiment. The numbers are on the top of
> the page and the graphs follow. I think it would be interesting to
> understand the cause for loops with aaa9. It would be also interesting
> to understand the temporal variation in various metrics, including
> loops. Having data from a 24-hr experiment allows us to study such
> temporal variations.=

Just to check -- aa9 has the < rule for loop detection, while aaa9  
has the <= rule? There's a big difference in delivery ratio. Also,  
aaa9 has a good number of queue full events... it would be good to  
look into what's causing them. Is it because of how CTP pauses on  
loop detection?

Phil