Re: [6tisch] The channel hopping scheme seems to be suboptimal

Simon Duquennoy <simonduq@sics.se> Fri, 23 September 2016 19:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [6tisch] The channel hopping scheme seems to be suboptimal
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> I suspect the main reason is that several slotframe schedules of
> different lengths can be active at the same time in one network.
> Keeping a separate ASFN for each schedule would require a lot of work.
>

With the standard you also get the guarantee that slots with different
channel offsets will never collide, regardless of the slotframe and
node they belong to.