On Aug 9, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Razvan Musaloiu-E. wrote:

> Hi!
>
> In case some people interested in this are not reading tinyos-help. :P
>
> --
> Razvan ME
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:27:27 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Razvan Musaloiu-E. <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Tinyos-help] significant changes to the PRR/SNR curve in  
> TOSSIM
>
> Hi!
>
> About 2 months ago, a commit [1] to CpmModelC.nc that eliminates the
> problem of receiving packets (non-zero PRR) for negative SNR also  
> made a
> significant change to the hardcoded PRR/SNR curve. This was not  
> adequately
> documented in the commit message and many people might not be aware of
> this. Here is a plot that shows the differences:
>          http://bit.ly/znrwQ
>
> The points represent the data collected by Yin Chen, a member of our  
> lab.
> In his tests the noise level was controlled by using a noise  
> generator so
> it covers a wide range. Similar data was also reported by the  
> following
> paper:
>          http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1460427
>
> So there are reasons to believe that even the current curve we have  
> in the
> tree is not the most accurate one. Caution is advised! :-)
>
> [1] 
> http://hinrg.cs.jhu.edu/git/?p=tinyos-2.x.git;a=commit;h=afe96d7e2a3747bba450e3db88a89569a0ba53b6
>

I'll note that the new curve is closer than the old curve.

If you have a better curve to propose, I'm sure SunHee would be happy  
to test with it.

Phil
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