[Tinyos-help] reliable ctp

[João Paulo Amaro da Costa Luz Carneiro]

Thanks for your explanation!
Never made or thought of that analogy.
So if CTP is a network protocol, are there any implemented transport  
protocols providing reliability? Out of curiosity, what other  
transport protocols are there?
Regards,

Joao

On 2008/11/13, at 01:55, Philip Levis wrote:

>
> On Nov 12, 2008, at 4:13 PM, João Paulo Amaro da Costa Luz Carneiro  
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I know CTP says it does a really really good effort to deliver all
>> messages, but is there a reliable version of CTP?
>> Thanks. Regards,
>
> No. That would require bidirectional communication and end-to-end  
> acknowledgements; CTP is just a routing layer. The idea is that you  
> could build such a protocol on top of CTP, just as TCP is built on  
> top of IP.
>
> Phil