Re: [RSN] Sleepy routers

"Timothy J. Salo" <salo@saloits.com> Fri, 07 December 2007 01:18 UTC

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Ian Chakeres wrote:
> From the proposed charter and name of the group I know that low-power
> and lossy are two important components. I was wondering whether these
> routers sleeping most (95%+) of the time should also be elevated to
> this status.
> 
> What do you think? Is the fact that routers are sleeping a lot one of
> the core issues that needs to be solved in this WG?

Cool!

Hopefully, the working group will start by specifying the semantics
of multicast in networks where most of the nodes are sleeping most
of the time.

Then, maybe, the working group can explain how to realize those
semantics.

-tjs



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