[Tinyos-help] Regarding MAC layer implementation in TinyOS

2006-07-26 Thread Ravilochan G S
Hello, I have a question regarding the CSMA link layer implementation in TinyOS. Is there a way to set the number of retransmissions that the MAC layer attempts to reach the destination? I am actually testing a simple program to send unicast messages to a common destination from 4 different nodes p

Re: [Tinyos-help] Regarding MAC layer implementation in TinyOS

2006-07-26 Thread Michael Schippling
I don't think the MAC layer does any retries at all. At least in the mica code, retries are a user level thing involving some kind of ACK from the receiver. The backoff should keep backing-off until it finds an open window, but that isn't dependent on the distance between motes. I have some ACK a