osd-contiki/doc/rime-doc.txt

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/**
* \addtogroup net
* @{
*/
/**
* \defgroup rime The Rime communication stack
* @{
*
* The Rime communication stack provides a set of lightweight
* communication primitives ranging from best-effort anonymous local area
* broadcast to reliable network flooding.
*
* The protocols in the Rime stack are arranged in a layered fashion,
* where the more complex protocols are implemented using the less
* complex protocols.
*
* We have chosen the communication primitives in the Rime stack based
* on what typical sensor network protocols use. Applications or
* protocols running on top of the Rime stack attach at any layer of
* the stack and use any of the communication primitives.
*
* The Rime stack supports both single-hop and multi-hop communication
* primitives. The multi-hop primitives do not specify how packets are
* routed through the network. Instead, as the packet is sent across
* the network, the application or upper layer protocol is invoked at
* every node to choose the next-hop neighbor. This makes it possible
* to implement arbitrary routing protocols on top of the multi-hop
* primitives.
*
* Protocols or applications running on top of the Rime stack can
* implement additional protocols that are not in the Rime stack. If a
* protocol or application running on top of the Rime stack would need
* a communication primitive that is not currently in the Rime stack,
* the application or protocol can implement it directly on top of
* other communication primitive in the stack.
*
* For more information, see:
*
* Adam Dunkels, Fredrik Österlind, and 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
* http://www.sics.se/~adam/slides/dunkels07adaptive.ppt
*
*/
/** @} */
/** @} */