Hi,

I am trying to determine how many tries CC2420TransmitP will make if 
Congestionbackoff occurs i.e. When CSMA-CA is enabled, which is by default, for 
the first time CCA pin is checked if medium is busy or not, if medium is busy 
then initialbackoff occurs then after initialbackoff time is passed then medium 
is checked again and if it is still busy then congestionbackoff occurs. 

By looking into CC2420TransmitP what I can understand is that after 
congestionBackoff() is called it calls BackoffTimer.start(myCongestionBackoff), 
BackoffTimer calls attemptSend() and it calls congestionBackoff() again if 
medium is busy. 

What I want to know is that is there a limit between this cycle that if 
congestionBackoff() is called this many times and the medium is still not free 
drop the packet? In IEEE 802.15.4 the number of retries is 3 but in TransmitP I 
don't see any limit. Also FIFO buffer of CC2420 is 128 bytes what will happen 
to next incoming packets?

Regards,
 
Tipu Sultan
 
Masters Student in Network, Services and Systems.
KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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