announcement is an (ID, value) tuple that is disseminated to local
area neighbors. An application or protocol can explicitly listen to
announcements from neighbors. When an announcement is heard, a
callback is invoked.
Announcements can be used for a variety of network mechanisms such as
neighbor discovery, node-level service discovery, or routing metric
dissemination.
Application programs and protocols register announcements with the
announcement module. An announcement back-end, implemented by the
system, takes care of sending out announcements over the radio, as
well as collecting announcements heard from neighbors.
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.
