[Tinyos-devel] Current status of the message buffer discussion

[Miklos Maroti]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Eric Decker <cire831 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a thought but has someone implemented prototype implementations of
> these approaches and looked at what it entails to actually code using these
> constructs?
> eric

The RF230 is done this way but no variable headers are used so far. I
can implement variable size IEEE802.15.4 headers if someone is willing
to test it. The easiest would be to stop the broadcast address (FFFF)
from the payload and save 2 bytes in that case, or on the receiver
side accept 4 byte addresses but report only the lower 2 bytes in
AMPacket.

If you want truly both 2 and 4 byte addresses, then the interfaces
need to be changed.

Miklos