Malisa Vucinic writes: > It does matter because if the forming a 100-node network takes several hours > and depletes a quarter of the battery as nodes cannot efficiently duty-cycle, > then the solution we are designing here becomes useless.
If sending/receiving 10 frames deplates a quarter of the battery of nodes, then you do have problem. Also if your network is so that the node #100 needs to go through all nodes #2-#99 to get to the coordinator, then the node #2 needs to indeed pass huge amount of frames through. It we assume that we have network where we have 100 nodes, and those 100 nodes are split in 2 levels of interaction, i.e. coordinator talks to 10 nodes, and each of those nodes have 10 "child" neighbors, then the traffic between those JA nodes need to pass 10*10 frames, i.e. 100 frames. That should not be problem in TSCH network, as TSCH nodes cannot be silent for long time. They need to transmit frame every few beacon intervals, thus they are sending frame every few seconds just to stay in the network. I have no idea why you are thinking that situation would be as bad as you assume above. -- [email protected] _______________________________________________ 6tisch mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6tisch
