routeselect.nc

tinyos-2.x.rar

// $Id: RouteSelect.nc,v 1.5 2008/06/11 00:46:25 razvanm Exp $

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/*
 * Authors:		Philip Levis
 * Date last modified:  8/12/02
 *
 * The RouteSelect interface is part of the TinyOS ad-hoc routing
 * system architecture. The component that keeps track of routing
 * information and makes route selection decisions provides this
 * interface. When a Send component wants to send a packet, it passes
 * it to RouteSelect for its routing information to be filled in. This
 * way, the Send component is entirely unaware of the routing
 * header/footer structure.
 */

/**
 * Interface to a route selection component in the TinyOS ad-hoc
 * system architecture.
 * @author Philip Levis
 */

#include "AM.h"

interface RouteSelect {

  /**
   * Whether there is currently a valid route.
   *
   * @return Whether there is a valid route.
   */
  command bool isActive();

  /**
   * Select a route and fill in all of the necessary routing
   * information to a packet.
   *
   * @param msg Message to select route for and fill in routing information.
   *
   * @return Whether a route was selected succesfully. On FAIL the
   * packet should not be sent.
   *
   */
  
  command error_t selectRoute(message_t* ONE msg, uint8_t resend);


  /**
   * Given a TOS_MstPtr, initialize its routing fields to a known
   * state, specifying that the message is originating from this node.
   * This known state can then be used by selectRoute() to fill in
   * the necessary data.
   *
   * @param msg Message to select route for and fill in init data.
   *
   * @return Should always return SUCCESS.
   *
   */

  command error_t initializeFields(message_t* msg);
  
  
  /**
   * Given a TinyOS message buffer, provide a pointer to the data
   * buffer within it that an application can use as well as its
   * length. Unlike the getBuffer of the Send interface, this can
   * be called freely and does not modify the buffer.
   *
   * @param msg The message to get the data region of.
   *
   * @param length Pointer to a field to store the length of the data region.
   *
   * @return A pointer to the data region.
   */
  
  command uint8_t* getBuffer(message_t* msg, uint16_t* len);
}