[Tinyos-help] Transport Protocol

Arya Afrashteh aafrasht at vt.edu
Thu Aug 3 12:28:01 PDT 2006


I'm currently researching and trying to come up with a way to design a 
transport protocol for TinyOS.  However I believe that using cross-layer 
design would be beneficial when it comes to routing and detecting neighbors 
and determining link quality.  In TinyOS, how would I retrieve statistical 
data from the MAC layer?

One other related problem is that when I use genericComm to send to a specific 
node, the other neighbor nodes won't  hear it because it doesn't signal the 
receive event.  I was thinking of just making everything broadcast and add a 
destinationAddr on top of the protocol but that seemed wasteful.  Is there 
anyway to make the receive event be signaled no matter what the destination 
address is and then I can check manually to see if I want to do further work 
with that packet?  Any advice or papers to read links would be useful, thanks!

- Arya




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