Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky

2007-07-11 Thread Philip Levis
On Jul 11, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Chonggang Wang wrote: Hello, I am trying to test the pure throughput of 802.15.4 and conduct an experiment as follows: \/ \/ | | --- ---

[Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky

2007-07-11 Thread Chonggang Wang
Hello, I am trying to test the pure throughput of 802.15.4 and conduct an experiment as follows: \/ \/ | | --- --- --- | PC1|

Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky

2007-07-11 Thread John Griessen
Chonggang Wang wrote: the received data rate at PC2 is only about 35 Kbps. Since tmote sky uses chipcon 2420 with 250 Kbps data rate, 35 Kbps is surprisingly pretty slow since in this case there should not be any collision. I am not sure if those two motes automatically go to sleep state. Also i

Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky

2007-07-11 Thread John Griessen
Philip Levis wrote: On Jul 11, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Chonggang Wang wrote: Since tmote sky uses chipcon 2420 with 250 Kbps data rate, 35 Kbps is surprisingly MAC backoff. Phil Supposing we could get some audio encoded by a chip like akustica makes, and maybe compressed, and locally

Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky

2007-07-11 Thread John Griessen
Chonggang Wang wrote: Yes. Baud rate is bit per second. I set 115200 (115.2 Kbps) in my experiment. I got 35 Kbps (bit per second) throughput at receiver side. since 35 is far smaller than 115.2, the bottleneck is not the serial port, it is in air-interface. The MAC in the mote that outputs

Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky

2007-07-11 Thread Chonggang Wang
: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky To: Chonggang Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: tinyos-help@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU On Jul 11, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Chonggang Wang wrote: Hello, I am trying to test the pure throughput of 802.15.4 and conduct an experiment as follows

Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky

2007-07-11 Thread Joe Polastre
larger than 35 Kbps. I still do not know the reason. Thanks, Chonggang - Original Message - From: Philip Levis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:57 pm Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky To: Chonggang Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: tinyos-help

Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky

2007-07-11 Thread Chonggang Wang
should be: 3.84/(3.84+3.176)*250K = 136.8 Kbps 35 Kbps. Am I missing any delay/overhead? Thanks. Chonggang - Original Message - From: Joe Polastre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 2:33 pm Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky To: Chonggang Wang [EMAIL

Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky

2007-07-11 Thread Chonggang Wang
Chonggang Wang wrote: Yes. Baud rate is bit per second. I set 115200 (115.2 Kbps) in my experiment. I got 35 Kbps (bit per second) throughput at receiver side. since 35 is far smaller than 115.2, the bottleneck is not the serial port, it is in air-interface. The MAC in the mote

Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky

2007-07-11 Thread Joe Polastre
1. Turn around time, aTurnaroundTime is 16 symbols specified in the standard. Since the symbol rate is 62.5 Ksymbols/second, aTurnaroundTime = 16 * (1/62.5) = 192 us. (where did you get 450 us?) http://focus.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/cc2420.pdf -Joe

Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky

2007-07-11 Thread Chonggang Wang
As indicated on page 66 in cc2420.pdf, turnaround time is 192 us or 128 us, not 450us. -Chonggang - Original Message - From: Joe Polastre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:58 pm Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky To: Chonggang Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky

2007-07-11 Thread Francis Simoneau
Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky To: Chonggang Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: tinyos-help@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU On Jul 11, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Chonggang Wang wrote: Hello, I am trying to test the pure throughput of 802.15.4 and conduct an experiment as follows

Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky

2007-07-11 Thread Chonggang Wang
has 2420? Sincerely, Chonggang - Original Message - From: Francis Simoneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 4:23 pm Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky To: Joe Polastre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Chonggang Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED], Philip Levis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky

2007-07-11 Thread Philip Levis
On Jul 11, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Chonggang Wang wrote: Thanks for the posting, Phil. Yes, There is a backoff in CSMA-CA. However the backoff is not that much to make 250 Kbps down to 35 Kbps. The reason is below. According the IEEE 802.15.4 standard 2003 version, the average backoff time

Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky

2007-07-11 Thread Francis Simoneau
Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] throughput of tmote sky To: Joe Polastre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Chonggang Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED], Philip Levis [EMAIL PROTECTED], tinyos-help@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU Joe is right about other delays in the system Assuming TmoteSky means Boomerang 2.0.4 and default compile