Thanks you all for the replies.

Another question: I know a node performs clear channel listening
before sending packets - is the result depend on the channel it is
using or traffic on any channel will make the node to back off?

Regards,

Peng

On 15 June 2011 17:12, Jan Hauer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> RSSI is measuring power, it does not matter quite much
>> whether it comes from noise, interference or useful signal.
>
> Yes. Take a look at Fig. 2 in [1], where  you can see RSSI measured
> with high frequency on a telos node while two frames (IEEE 802.15.4
> DATA + WLAN Beacon) collide. There is rise in RSSI, because the
> "colliding packet" is stronger.
>
> Jan
> [1] http://www.tkn.tu-berlin.de/publications/papers/hauer_ewsn2010.pdf
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Sergio Valcarcel <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Hello Peng,
>> it is quite simple. RSSI is measuring power, it does not matter quite much
>> whether it comes from noise, interference or useful signal.
>> That is the reason because there is another quality indicator which measures
>> signal to noise ratio.
>> Cheers!
>> Sergio
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Peng Du <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I always thought the RSSI value read from received packets would fall
>>> as the interference grows. However I just found that the reading
>>> actually rises when I switch on a commercial interference generator..
>>>
>>> Would anyone point out why this is happening? Thanks very much.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Peng
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Tinyos-help mailing list
>>> [email protected]
>>> https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Tinyos-help mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
>>
>

_______________________________________________
Tinyos-help mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help

Reply via email to