Hi, this interval is related with the CCA and backoff process.

2013/2/4 Farzad Samie <[email protected]>

> Hi Christian
> Perfect! It works now. And it will not go to receive more after
> transmission.
> But there is still a question; According to the signal value in image
> below, it sounds that the sender will listen to the channel to check
> whether it is free or not. It senses career first, and then send the
> packets. Is it the reason of this signal's behavior? If yes, can we
> reduce the time interval of listening to channel before transmission?
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/9bwa4quu68z7561/wave2.bmp
>
> Thanks again
> Farzad
>
>
> On 04.02.2013 15:41, Christian Haas wrote:
> > On 02/04/2013 03:05 PM, Farzad Samie wrote:
> >> Hello
> >> I'm trying to measure the radio module power (in send/receive state). My
> >> platform is telosb (tinyos2.x and radio module is cc2420). I use low
> >> power listening  interface.
> >>
> >> I have two nodes: The first one is just a sender; it should only send
> >> packet and doesn't need to receive any thing.
> >>
> >> I've set the transmission power to lowest level on sender, transmit 2
> >> packets per second periodically. So according to datasheet, I expect it
> >> to consume about 9mA for a short period and then goes to sleep mode and
> >> consumes about a few uA. But after sending these 2 packets, it spends
> >> more time (~100ms) in receive mode (consuming about 20mA).
> >
> > 100ms is the default delay after receive parameter as defined in Lpl.h,
> > so this is just the way LPL works. You can change the value to 0 for
> > both nodes, but be careful within bigger networks where a higher delay
> > after receive value might improve the overall network performance.
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Christian
> >
> >
> >
>
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