2010/3/14 Islam Hegazy <[email protected]>:
> Hi all,
>
> After reading the CTP paper and understanding the implementation in TinyOS,
> I conducted a numerical example to understand the behaviour of ETX. I had
> the following observations:
> 1) Beacon-driven link quality (BLQ) tends to increase the value of ETX,
> while data-driven link quality (DLQ) tends to decrease the value of ETX.

How did you conclude this?

> 2) BLQ is unidirectional from the incoming beacons, while DLQ is
> bidirectional from data packets and ACKs.

Yes, about the 4bitle implementation. You can look at le for something
that uses beacons.

> 3) BLQ is calculated for all neighbours, while DLQ is calculated for my the
> next hop neighbour only.

Yes.

> 4) ACK is on 1-to-1 basis, which means that a node sends a single data
> packet and waits for the ACK before sending a new data packet.

Yes.

> 5) ACK does not include the seq. number of the data packet since it is a
> 1-to-1 scheme.

Yes.

> 6) Snoop and intercept do not update the neighbour entries in the routing
> tables.

Yes. They are meant to be used by applications.

- om_p

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