[Tinyos-help] Advice on Protocols to use

[Philip Levis]

On Jul 12, 2006, at 8:33 AM, Francis Simoneau wrote:

> We are building a sensor network that will have up to 100 TmoteSky's
> in a field communicating to a gateway (tmote to Internet connection  
> point).
> Trying to decide which protocols to use for tmote to gateway, and
> gateway to tmote. Tmote to gateway is reporting readings every 5 to
> 15 minutes from each tmote, gateway to tmote will be commands only
> in the form of 10 bytes or less on a very intermittent basis, less  
> than once
> per day.
>
> We will be using SP in either normal or low power mode from Boomerang.
>
> Collection Protocol considered: Multi hop
> Dissemination Protocols considered: DRIP, BCAST
>
> What is best for TinyOS 1.x and TinyOS 2.x?
> Are any other protocols better?

For TinyOS 2.0, the beta2 release has reference implementations of  
Collection and Dissemination, which are documented in TEP 118 and  
119. But they are designed to use TinyOS 2.0 and not Boomerang  
interfaces.

Phil