Hi.

Forwarding Events.LinkResult should also include the parameter that indicates 
that total number of transmission attempts for this specific packet. The ETX of 
the specific link (e.g., [src,dest] pair) can be computed using this 
information easily. 

Thanks!

-John

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JeongGil Ko, Ph.D.
Researcher
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
http://sites.google.com/site/jeonggilko/

On Oct 26, 2012, at 12:18 AM, Hugo De Haas <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
>  
> I am using TinyOS 2.1.2. In the TinyRPL implementation there is a function 
> ForwardingEvents.LinkResult [lib/net/rpl/RPLRankP.nc:524] which updates the 
> etx_hop in the parentSet of each node. This function is only called inside 
> the function IPForward.sendDone [lib/net/blip/IPForwardingEngineP.nc:314]. So 
> the link quality between nodes is only updated if a packet is successfully 
> sent. The value is updated with the amount of attempts needed to send it and 
> a certain ratio.
> 
>  
> But how does the code handle unsuccessful send packets? Does the link quality 
> get updated on a failed attempt?
> 
> I have been looking into this matter for multiple days but I have not found 
> any indication whether such an update happens.  Not in de Blip code nor in 
> the RPL code. 
> 
>  
> BR,
> 
> Hugo
> 
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