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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
fros4943 9b20f11cd8 chameleon returns 1 only on successful rime_output() 2009-11-13 09:14:52 +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
adamdunkels 210782d9c6 Set the channel as a packet attribute 2008-08-15 18:59:22 +00:00
adamdunkels cfcdac3122 Avoid crashing if Rime/Chameleon is not initialized when Rime code is run 2008-07-03 23:13:31 +00:00
adamdunkels 39c85118d8 Ensure that header_module is != NULL before calling it. Define and print headers only if DEBUG is set. 2008-03-03 20:20:33 +00:00
fros4943 cefaa38581 -debugging output 2008-02-27 10:39:17 +00:00
adamdunkels 412facb831 This is an initial commit of an implementation of the Chameleon
architecture for the Rime stack for Contiki. The Chameleon
architecture separates the header processing from the Rime protocol
logic. Instead of having each protocol create its own part of the
packet header, protocols use packet attributes. Before sending a
packet, a special Chameleon header processing module creates a packet
header from the packet attributes. The same Chameleon module parses
incoming packets and creates packet attributes from the header.

The details are in our SenSys 2007 paper:

Adam Dunkels, Fredrik Osterlind, Zhitao He. An Adaptive Communication
Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the Fifth
ACM Conference on Networked Embedded Sensor Systems (SenSys 2007),
Sydney, Australia, November 2007.

http://www.sics.se/~adam/dunkels07adaptive.pdf

This is a rewrite of the code that was developed for the paper.
2008-02-25 02:14:34 +00:00