Seems that large EBs at low rates ended up being a problem in subgig cases 
after all, Dale.

The discussion at the interim was either to make very large slots => 
impractical, or preconfigure sometimes, 2 or more consecutive time slots are 
paired; the second is never scheduled, and is free to accept the remainder of 
the frame sent in the first… The pairing will be interesting to make work, ince 
the channel computation is based on ASN so the consecutive time slots to not 
have the same channel offset….

Cheers

Pascal



From: 6tisch [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Watteyne
Sent: vendredi 9 décembre 2016 15:39
To: Dale R. Worley <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Turner <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [6tisch] slot schedluing

Dale,

+1 on your answer.

Thomas

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Dale R. Worley 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Randy Turner <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
writes:
> Just re-confirming an assumption -- from a TSCH perspective, slot
> scheduling assumes any single transmission "cannot" exceed a slot
> boundary -- if transmissions require a certain amount of time, then the
> slot width is increased to deal with this ( or possibly increase the
> TX bit rate if possible )
>
> Is this correct ?

As others have noted, extending the slot width can only be done when the
network is initialized.  In practice, packets that do not fit within a
slot time are fragmented.  My understanding is that all such packets are
IP packets, and are fragmented using using the layer 2 fragmentation
defined in RFC 6282 (not the one defined in RFC 4944).  Thus, the
minimum (layer 3) IPv6 MTU of 1280 bytes is supported.

As far as I know, there is no fragmentation mechanism for the EB
(extended beacon) layer-2 packets.  But that does not seem to be a
problem in practice.

Dale

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