Dear Yatch, thanks for your comments! see inline my answers.
2018-02-13 18:13 GMT+01:00 Yasuyuki Tanaka <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > I'd like to share my comments on draft-chang-6tisch-msf-00: > > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-chang-6tisch-msf-00 > > The first one is about 6P CLEAR after detecting unreachability to a > neighbor. > > > 3.8. Step 7 - Neighbor Polling > > > > (snip) > > > > When a neighbor is declared unreachable, the node MUST issue a 6P > > CLEAR to that neighbor (which can fail at the link-layer), and MUST > > remove all dedicated links with that neighbor from its own schedule. > > > Why does the node have to issue a 6P CLEAR to a neighbor which is > determined to be unreachable...? It just wastes time and energy of the > initiator since this transaction will fail as the draft mentioned. I think > it'd be fine to remove all the dedicated cells to the unreachable neighbor > without 6P CLEAR. By the way, the term "cells" should be used instead of > "links". > > XV> I agree. A node can directly reset its schedule. We will change that sentence. > Other comments are trivial. > > > 1. Introduction > > > > (snip) > > > > MSF is designed to operate in a wide range of application domains. > > It is optimized for applications with regular upstream traffic (from > > the nodes to the Internet). > > "The internet" sounds too specific. "From the nodes toward the root" would > be better? > XV>> Agree. > > > 2. Interface to the Minimal 6TiSCH Configuration > > > > (snip) > > > > MSF uses the minimal cell to exchange the following packets: > > > > ... > > > > 4. The first 6P packet a node issues to a neighbor it doesn't have > > dedicated cells to, as defined by > > [I-D.ietf-6tisch-6top-protocol]. These are unicast frames. > > The minimal cell is used for not only the first 6P packet but also > subsequent packets associated with a 6P transaction initiated by the first > packet. In this sense, I'd like to propose to replace it with: > > 6P packets to schedule the first dedicated cell with a neighbor. There > are unicast frames. > XV>> Agree. > > > 7. Rules for CellList > > > > > > MSF uses 2-step 6P Transactions exclusively. 6P Transactions are > > only initiated by a node towards it preferred parent. As a result, > > the cells to put in the CellList of a 6P ADD command, and in the > > candidate CellList of a RELOCATE command, are chosen by the node. In > > both cases, the same rules apply: > > > > the CellList SHOULD contain 5 or more cells. > > Each cell in the CellList MUST have a different slotOffset value. > > For each cell in the CellList, the node MUST NOT have any > > scheduled cell on the same slotOffset. > > The slotOffset value of any cell in the CellList MUST NOT be the > > same as the slotOffset of the minimal cell (slotOffset=0). > > The slotOffset of a cell in the CellList SHOULD be randomly and > > uniformly chosen among all the slotOffset values that satisfy the > > restriction above. > > The channelOffset of a cell in the CellList SHOULD be randomly and > > uniformly in [0..numFrequencies] where numFrequencies represents > > the number of frequencies a node can communicate on. > > > Is this a format error...? > XV>> No, I think this is a bullet list with "invisible" bullets :) . We add the bullets. > > > 8. 6P Timeout Value > > > > > > The 6P Timeout is not a constant value. It is calculated a (C/ > > PDR)*6PTIMEOUT_SEC_FACTOR, where: > > > I think it'd be better for a variable name to start with a non-numeric > character even in a document. > > XV>> Agree. > That's it! > > Best, > Yatch > thanks Yatch! regards X > _______________________________________________ > 6tisch mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6tisch > -- Dr. Xavier Vilajosana Wireless Networks Lab *Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)Professor* (+34) 646 633 681 [email protected] <[email protected]> http://xvilajosana.org http://wine.rdi.uoc.edu Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia Av Carl Friedrich Gauss 5, B3 Building 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona). Catalonia. Spain [image: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya]
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