[Tinyos-help] 4 bit Link Estimator.

[Omprakash Gnawali]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:16 PM, M. Onur Ergin <ergin at tkn.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi! Thank you for the quick reply..
> CTP is working and the packets are delivered successfully. I am also
> printing the readings to the console using the Printf of tossim. Those
> (constant values from 8 to 25) are the return values of getLinkQuality for
> sure. In the TCP, you've written that these values should be between 0 and
> 255. Is 255 the best quality? And, since Sept 2008, have you updated the
> implementation? May be I am implementing on an old version.

The return values are EETX. Does this help explain those small numbers?

> I've back-traced the CTP code. As far as I see, all packet traffic of CTP
> is passing through 4bitle LinkEstimator, isn't it?

Yes, the routing beacons pass through the link estimator.

- om_p