On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Hazem Al- Ojeh <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>
> Hi all, I just wanted to ask a very quick question... as shown in the
> mote-mote
> radio communication lesson, the AM type was set to 6, so I was just
> wondering
> what effect does this have over the communication overall.


It is a type field.  Meaning it tells how to interpret the data that
follows.
If you are familar with ethernet for example, the ethernet type field (part
of
the MAC header, dest addr, src addr, type field) does the same thing.  An
ethernet
type field of 0x0800 says that the rest of the packet is IP.

AMtype performs a similar function.

eric


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Eric B. Decker
Senior (over 50 :-) Researcher
Autonomous Systems Lab
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
UCSC
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