Re: [6tsch] About the special type of event to ask PCE to create a track

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your explanation. You are saying the request packet from node is
generated by the upper layer of 6top, correct?

If so, since the request packet is generated by upper layer of 6top,
instead of 6top internal events like alarm, I think it is reasonable to add
the 5th control flow.

What do you think?

Qin

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Thomas Watteyne <watteyne@eecs.berkeley.edu
> wrote:

> Qin,
>
> Thanks for bringing that up. Allow me to answer in Pascal's place. We are
> talking about the format of the packets exchanged between the ME and the
> nodes. In the centralized case, these are application-level packets, i.e.
> packet generated by an entity a couple of layer above 6top. That entity
> talks with the PCE over the network, and with 6top through the API
> (internal to the node) as defined in
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6tsch-6top-00#section-2.4.
>
> If we agree on that, the question is whether the packet the node sends to
> establish a new track is part of the event flow, or not. In both cases, it
> would originate from this application-level entity, but possibly
> transported in different ways.
>
> Thomas
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Qin Wang <qinwang@berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Pascal,
>>
>> My understanding is that 6top is a passive role in dealing with
>> cell/track reservation. In another word, the 6top in a node can report its
>> state, including neighbor table, cell usage, and other statistics
>> information, but can not make decision on if some cells/track should be
>> added or removed, which should be the responsibility of PCE in centralized
>> case or upper layer in distributed case. Thus, I can not see when the 5th
>> flow will be used. Can you explain more?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Qin
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <
>> pthubert@cisco.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> We discussed at the call that the(PCEP?) request to ask for a track
>>> establishment could be seen as an event, or could be a new flow.
>>> At the call, I suggested that it could be a new, 5th flow. My arguments
>>> are that this flow:
>>> - Probably yields different data format. The demand carries and points,
>>> end to end latency and bandwidth. That's quite specific.
>>> - Probably yields a different flow. Events do not necessarily have a
>>> response.
>>> - Probably uses a different transport as well (PCEP vs. CoAP)
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> Pascal
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