Hi, > I think the retry attempts are counted if you include the PACKET_LINK > directive in your make file. have a look at the CC2420ActiveMessageC and > CC2420PacketP. As far as I remember, in case you dont include this > directive, MAC does not account for retry attempts.
No. The packet link layer does not even notice if the channel is busy. It only resends if there is no ACK. The question was what happens if the channel is always busy. Then, in CC2420TransmitP BackoffTimer.fired() is called, CCA is sampled and the BackoffTimer is restarted. This happens forever. Best, Daniel -- Daniel Minder University of Duisburg-Essen, Networked Embedded Systems Bismarckstr. 90, 47057 Duisburg, Germany Skype: d.minder _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
