Merge pull request #379 from simonduq/csma-exponential-backoff

A truncated exponential backoff for csma
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Adam Dunkels 2013-11-14 11:51:07 -08:00
commit 67ccf43e68

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@ -63,6 +63,14 @@
#define PRINTF(...)
#endif /* DEBUG */
#ifndef CSMA_MAX_BACKOFF_EXPONENT
#ifdef CSMA_CONF_MAX_BACKOFF_EXPONENT
#define CSMA_MAX_BACKOFF_EXPONENT CSMA_CONF_MAX_BACKOFF_EXPONENT
#else
#define CSMA_MAX_BACKOFF_EXPONENT 3
#endif /* CSMA_CONF_MAX_BACKOFF_EXPONENT */
#endif /* CSMA_MAX_BACKOFF_EXPONENT */
#ifndef CSMA_MAX_MAC_TRANSMISSIONS
#ifdef CSMA_CONF_MAX_MAC_TRANSMISSIONS
#define CSMA_MAX_MAC_TRANSMISSIONS CSMA_CONF_MAX_MAC_TRANSMISSIONS
@ -194,6 +202,7 @@ packet_sent(void *ptr, int status, int num_transmissions)
mac_callback_t sent;
void *cptr;
int num_tx;
int backoff_exponent;
int backoff_transmissions;
n = ptr;
@ -249,18 +258,21 @@ packet_sent(void *ptr, int status, int num_transmissions)
check interval of the underlying radio duty cycling layer. */
time = default_timebase();
/* The retransmission time uses a linear backoff so that the
interval between the transmissions increase with each
retransmit. */
backoff_transmissions = n->transmissions + 1;
/* The retransmission time uses a truncated exponential backoff
* so that the interval between the transmissions increase with
* each retransmit. */
backoff_exponent = num_tx;
/* Clamp the number of backoffs so that we don't get a too long
timeout here, since that will delay all packets in the
queue. */
if(backoff_transmissions > 3) {
backoff_transmissions = 3;
/* Truncate the exponent if needed. */
if(backoff_exponent > CSMA_MAX_BACKOFF_EXPONENT) {
backoff_exponent = CSMA_MAX_BACKOFF_EXPONENT;
}
/* Proceed to exponentiation. */
backoff_transmissions = 1 << backoff_exponent;
/* Pick a time for next transmission, within the interval:
* [time, time + 2^backoff_exponent * time[ */
time = time + (random_rand() % (backoff_transmissions * time));
if(n->transmissions < metadata->max_transmissions) {