[Tinyos-help] optimal sleep period in CC2420 LPL???

[Philip Levis]

On Aug 3, 2007, at 2:16 AM, Ravi Prasad wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to find out optimal value of sleeping
> period ( or in other words the duty cycle) to be used
> in applications using CC2420 LPL for radio duty
> cycling.
>
> The  term "optimal" here means a value of sleep period
> which will perform best(best in terms of power
> consumption & througput) in general radio traffic.
> Lets say every node in network sending 1
> packet/10seconds.
>
>
> Q. -- Did anyone tested CC2420LPL with different sleep
> period settings??
>
>
> I do understand that the optimal value will depend on
> many variables like data rate, network size, number of
> hops travelled by packet etc. But to start any input
> on this issue will be great help for me.

I'd recommend Joe Polastre's paper in SenSys 2004 (the BMAC paper),  
which has an analytical framework for answering this question.

Phil