Hello again guys,

No reply for this problem? even any thoughts or clues? maybe I wrote it too
long, my guess is the transmission range and communication power of the
nodes gets less and less by passing time. has anyone faced with such a
situation ever? does anyone has any thoughts about this?
BTW I do lots of broadcasting in my program (one at every 6 seconds) can
this be a reason for the problem?



2009/6/5 Mohammad S. Hashemian <[email protected]>

> Hi all,
>
> I ran into a very weird problem recently. I was using Crossbow MoteWorks
> framework for writing a program and installing it on some MicaZ motes. The
> program was sensing some data from MTS310 sensor board and report them to
> the base station. After writing the code, I picked some new MicaZ motes and
> installed the program on them, everything was working fine. After one day I
> had to reset the motes to change their battery, when I turned them on again,
> most of them (around 80%) couldn't join the network alone, i.e. if I was
> just turning that mote on alone with server, the mote couldn't find the
> server, even though they were right next to each other! But when I was
> picking another fresh new mote and installing my program on it and putting
> it between the old mote and the server, the old mote could create a two-hop
> network and send it's data to the server via the new mote!
> I checked the old motes with XMTS310 program (the one which ships with
> MoteWorks framework), but the old motes were just collecting the data and
> sending the packets, but server never could receive those packets from old
> motes (probably because the wireless transmission power of the old motes
> were too low that server couldn't receive them!)
>
> Does any one have any idea or any clue that what might be the source of
> this problem? I really appreciate any response.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mohammad
>
>
> --
> Mohammad S. Hashemian
> Research Scholar/DISCUS Lab
> Department of Computer Science
> 254.2 Thorvaldson Building
> University of Saskatchewan
> (306)966-1947
>
>


-- 
Mohammad S. Hashemian
Research Scholar/DISCUS Lab
Department of Computer Science
254.2 Thorvaldson Building
University of Saskatchewan
(306)966-1947
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