[Tinyos-devel] timestamps in seriallisten/sflisten etc.

[Omprakash Gnawali]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Andreas Koepke <koepke at tkn.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
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> In our testbed we have a problem with the current SF protocol, as it
> does not allow time stamps: the user has no clue about the time that
> passes between two events, this is especially true if he uses WLAN as
> the last hop to connect to an SF: the packets are queued, split to WLAN
> packets and recombined -- effectively removing the difference in
> generation time completely. The reported time is completely useless, the
> line number contains all the timing information left.

This approach would not be accurate but still might be useful for most
scenarios. For example, if I am doing Antitheft, it is ok if I am off
by a few seconds unless the thief runs really fast.

- om_p