[Tinyos-help] Struggling to understand arbitration and resources

2007-05-28 Thread David Henry
Is there any introductory material re arbitration and resources? I'm reading the Boomerang/CC2420 sources to learn how UART0 is managed and I have to admit that its pretty obfuse. Why, for example, is it necessary to have 2 mechanisms? Why isnt the resource reqest/granted/release interface enough

[Tinyos-help] [BSN] - TestEEprom application

2007-05-28 Thread yvonne er
Dear sir/madam, We are currently working on body sensor networks (BSN) based applications. We intend to control data sending from sensors using the pc. Thus we wanted to inquire about the TestEEprom application. However, the java file: TestEEprom.java is not present at its mentioned location. We

RE: [Tinyos-help] How could I get receive signal strength form amessage?

2007-05-28 Thread Aleksandr N. Sadkov
Hello Liupeng, What version of TinyOs are you using? If TinyOs 2.x, please see structure of message_t . (tos/types/message.h) If TinyOs 1.x, please see structure of TOS_Msg. More information: http://www.tinyos.net/tinyos-2.x/doc/html/tep111.html Regards, Sadkov Aleksandr.

[Tinyos-help] getting data with MDA300 and XSensorMDA300

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[Tinyos-help] a problem of minthop route protocol in tinyviz

2007-05-28 Thread qiting chen
hi! I've implemented an application in tinyviz,using the minthop route protocol.But I've found something confusing. I choose "empirical" in the Radio Modle plugin. As the network initializes,every node broadcast route_msg to estimate link quality of its neighbours until it gets enough imfo

[Tinyos-help] Re: Tinyos-help Digest, Vol 49, Issue 131

2007-05-28 Thread s . schaefer
Dear customer, Sorry, i am out of office till 02-06-2007. Best regards, Siegfried Schaefer Schaefer EDV-Dienstleistungen und Softwareentwicklungen Goethestr. 29 75031 Eppingen ___ Tinyos-help mailing list Tinyos-help@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU https://m

Re: [Tinyos-help] Counting CPU cycles using PowerTossim

2007-05-28 Thread Ixent Galpin
Safraz, Thanks for pointing me to Avrora, it looks a very promising tool for my forthcoming research. With regards to the CPU cycle count problem of zero I was getting last week, I found the solution to the problem after much playing around. I thought it would be useful post the solution I

[Tinyos-help] Random number seed? Battery information?

2007-05-28 Thread Ivo Anastácio
What seed can i use to generate random numbers in tinyos2.x? I want to generate random node id's but they are all using the initial seed wich is the original TOS_NODE_ID == 1. Can i access the the information on the remaining battery life on the micaz mote? best regards, Ivo

[Tinyos-help] surge or surge_reliable? Multihop issue

2007-05-28 Thread Gary Pan
Deal all, I have kept searching the archive for more information about surge and surge_reliable. But I am still not clear. I have several questions: 1. what is the difference between surge and surge_reliable located at /apps? It would be great if anyone can explain what is the different betwee

[Tinyos-help] usage of RadioBackoff in apps

2007-05-28 Thread Mayur Maheshwari
Hi David I wish to use the radiobackoff interface in one of my apps which sends few packets with the backoff timer set to a small value and the rest with the default backoff timer setting of the radio stack. However, I am not able to comprehend a few things: 1. What should be the minimum and the

[Tinyos-help] InternalFlash question

2007-05-28 Thread raj raj
Dear all, In tinyos 1.1.x, there is a component called InternalFlashC which provides the interface InernalFlash. the avr platform has 128KB of program memory (flash memory), 4 KB of SRAM and 4 KB of EEPROM memory. The InternalFlashC componet can read from and write to internal Flash.My question

[Tinyos-help] a problem in creating component graph

2007-05-28 Thread qiting chen
Hi I'm trying to creat the component graph of an app in TinyOS2.0 by typing "make micaz docs"under the application directory.But I got some error messages,say: Couldn't execute avr-gcc nesdoc failed: no valid input make: *** [docs_] Error 2 can anybody help me ? Thank you in advance

[Tinyos-help] Java tools installation requirements - Moteiv

2007-05-28 Thread keerthii
I was just wondering if someone knew what are all the things I need to install to get the Java tools working on a linux PC? Do I need all the: NesC compiler MSPGCC MSP430 Bootstrap Loader I've got boomerang. I've got a PlayStation 2 running linux and the architect

[Tinyos-help] Corrupted packets with Tossim-Packet

2007-05-28 Thread Sarfraz Nawaz
Hi all, I am trying to use Tossim-Packet for my simulations under tinyos-1.1.15cvsdec on Linux to see how a protocol behaves in the absence of collisions. I have followed the instructions in the readme file under tos/platform/pc/packet and have managed to compile my code successfully. However, I