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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 75e1c0c8c7 Include contiki-conf.h to let the MAC channel check rate be configurable 2010-02-03 16:45:12 +00:00
adamdunkels d68af249ec Added a MAC layer return value that informs the caller that a packet did not receive a MAC layer acknowledgement 2010-02-03 01:17:32 +00:00
adamdunkels 181213124b Added a configuration option for setting the MAC channel check rate (which must be a power of two). The configuration is independent of the MAC protocol. 2010-02-02 23:28:58 +00:00
adamdunkels 7ad93e5d18 Added a field to the struct mac interface:
channel_check_interval(). This function returns the interval by which
the duty cycling mechanism checks the radio channel for activity. It
is used by higher layer mechanisms to determine suitable timeouts for
retransmissions.
2010-01-25 11:43:32 +00:00
adamdunkels cef2e65c9b Added an error type for signalling a MAC-layer collision 2009-12-05 21:49:51 +00:00
fros4943 26bb5ecd21 added radio and MAC generic return values to allow applications finding out whether the packet was transmitted 2009-11-13 08:59:22 +00:00
nifi 912aba7280 added init function in MAC driver for easier configuration 2009-06-22 11:14:11 +00:00
adamdunkels 05454ce929 Documentation bugfix 2008-07-02 14:10:28 +00:00
adamdunkels a7dfa95551 Added a 'name' field in the mac structure, which allows boot-up code to print out the name of the currently selected MAC protocol 2008-06-30 08:08:27 +00:00
adamdunkels 32a3fa5d4a Added parameter to the mac off() method that specifies whether or not the radio should be turned off when the MAC layer is turned off 2008-02-24 21:05:28 +00:00
adamdunkels b07cfde31b Generic API for MAC layers 2007-05-25 06:40:19 +00:00