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adamdunkels e34eb54960 A work-in-progress rework of the Contiki MAC and radio layers. The
main ideas are:

* Separates the Contiki low-layer network stack into four layers:
  network (e.g. sicslowpan / rime), Medium Access Control MAC
  (e.g. CSMA), Radio Duty Cycling RDC (e.g. ContikiMAC, X-MAC), and
  radio (e.g. cc2420).
* Introduces a new way to configure the network stack. Four #defines
  that specify what mechanism/protocol/driver to use at the four
  layers: NETSTACK_CONF_NETWORK, NETSTACK_CONF_MAC, NETSTACK_CONF_RDC,
  NETSTACK_CONF_RADIO.
* Adds a callback mechanism to inform the MAC and network layers about
  the fate of a transmitted packet: if the packet was not possible to
  transmit, the cause of the failure is reported, and if the packets
  was successfully transmitted, the number of tries before it was
  finally transmitted is reported.
* NULL-protocols at both the MAC and RDC layers: nullmac and nullrdc,
  which can be used when MAC and RDC functionality is not needed.
* Extends the radio API with three new functions that enable more
  efficient radio duty cycling protocols: channel check, pending
  packet, and receiving packet.
* New initialization mechanism, which takes advantage of the NETSTACK
  #defines.
2010-02-18 21:48:39 +00:00
adamdunkels 2b6a651233 Added missing include, made debug statement more explicit 2010-02-08 21:59:21 +00:00
adamdunkels b98f7d891f Bugfix: added missing queuebuf allocation 2010-02-06 20:50:24 +00:00
adamdunkels 671216c558 No need to clear the headers now that we explicitly save a queuebuf when sending fragments 2010-02-06 17:07:43 +00:00
adamdunkels b6647b5630 Turns out that with cxmac, clearing the header after sending a packet is not enough to make fragmentation work. Instead, we allocate a queuebuf and restore the packet after from the queuebuf after sending it. 2010-02-06 09:42:49 +00:00
adamdunkels 494e692d0b Bugfix: clear the header after sending a packet solves a problem with fragmentation; also prod the watchdog since fragment transmissions can take a long time with some low-power MAC protocol 2010-02-06 07:49:58 +00:00
adamdunkels 4bffd277f5 Don't set the stream bit on outgoing TCP packets for now - it doesn't seem to play well with IPv6 and X-MAC 2010-02-03 16:44:19 +00:00
adamdunkels 388c5d4244 Made the sicslowpan MAC layer reachable from outside modules 2010-01-28 13:50:51 +00:00
adamdunkels 5aab2eb77d A simple addition with significant performance implications:
sicslowpan tags TCP packets with the PACKETBUF_ATTR_PACKET_TYPE_STREAM
flag, which makes the underlying power-saving MAC layer keep the radio
on for some time after transmitting the packet. This allows reply
packets to be processed directly, significantly increasing TCP latency
and throughput.
2009-11-02 11:58:56 +00:00
nifi 0ad51b8dcc Moved the link layer destination check to sicslowmac 2009-09-18 16:37:17 +00:00
dak664 2166261890 Separate input and output debug PRINTFs 2009-07-10 13:33:45 +00:00
nifi 000f740adc typo 2009-04-06 15:54:07 +00:00
nifi 4bc60d76d3 fixed alignment problem on MSP430 when using compression 2009-04-06 13:11:20 +00:00
adamdunkels 65eb5fd4e8 Renamed the rimebuf module to packetbuf to signal that the module is used outside of a pure Rime context (e.g., the sicslowpan code uses it). 2009-03-12 21:58:20 +00:00
nvt-se 0c4f7bed8f temporary fix to get sicslowpan.c working on the Sky platform:
conventional MAC implementations require a call to the MAC driver's
read function.
2008-11-06 20:45:06 +00:00
julienabeille 4f9bc05f90 ping-ipv6 example compiles on native cygwin 2008-10-14 13:39:12 +00:00
adamdunkels fc1a8575d6 Removed unused include files (also automatically removed whitespace from line endings) 2008-10-14 12:26:18 +00:00
julienabeille 2e8264010b Main uIPv6 files addition - more 2008-10-14 09:42:33 +00:00