[Tinyos-help] changes in TinyOS packet

[Abhishek Jain]

Thanks. Could you mention the analogous files in TinyOS-1.x .

On 3/21/07, Philip Levis <pal at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Abhishek Jain wrote:
>
> > I want to make the following changes in the TinyOS packet.
> >
> > 1) Use some bits of the DstAddr field for a small counter.
> > 2) Remove the Grp ID field
> > 3) Remove the CRC field
> > 4) Add a new field for SrcAddr.
> > 5) Add a new field for MAC
> >
> > Could someone give me an idea how to go about it? Currently, we are
> > looking to do this for telosb motes.
>
> TelosB motes use an 802.15.4 radio, which has a standard link header.
> There are some ways you can tweak it, but some of it is checked/
> needed by hardware, so you can't.
>
> In TinyOS 2.x, you'd want to change CC2420.h for the packet format,
> CC2420TransmitP for the transmission path and CC2420ReceiveP for the
> receive path. The code isn't that well commented, but David Moss has
> written a really nice document on how it works. I don't know if he's
> made it public yet, but maybe he can give you a preliminary copy.
>
> Phil
>


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