[Tinyos-host-mote-wg] Re: TinyOS 2.0 host-mote working group

[David Gay]

Philip Levis wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Gilman Tolle wrote:
>> The mote radio and the serial link have mismatched speeds, which
>> causes packet loss under heavy contention for the serial link.
> 
> This is just a basic problem on any device with two network interfaces. 
> I'm not sure if a protocol should deal with this, although providing 
> some kind of support to detect it's happening is probably a good idea.

I presume this refers to the need for some kind of buffering/retry on 
the mote side? (and retry on the PC-side, it already has the buffering).

David