Re: [Roll] Way forward for draft-clausen-lln-rpl-experiences

Philip Levis <pal@cs.stanford.edu> Wed, 16 May 2012 17:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Roll] Way forward for draft-clausen-lln-rpl-experiences
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On May 16, 2012, at 6:54 AM, JP Vasseur wrote:
> 
> Well put it differently, it would be beneficial to provide more details on your testing scenarios for the WG to make sure that nothing 
> is "scenario-dependent" and to make sure that the outcome could indeed apply to all scenarios, it might be worth being more explicit.
> 
> Could you do that before polling the WG ?

I think an example of what JP's talking about might be something such as the question I raised in Paris: what constitutes a "down link" in the testing? Thomas' response was "no ack after L2 retransmissions"; this is an assumption about behavior. How many retransmissions? What was the time spacing? It's not hard to configure 802.11, for example, such that L2 back off has only a tiny chance of successful delivery in the case of a hidden terminal. Most wireless protocol implementations today understand these issues and rely on much longer time frames to consider a link "down."

Phil