netflood.h

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/**
 * \addtogroup rime
 * @{
 */

/**
 * \defgroup rimenetflood Best-effort network flooding
 * @{
 *
 * The netflood module does best-effort flooding.
 *
 * The netflood primitive sends a single packet to all nodes in the
 * network. The netflood primitive uses polite broadcasts at every hop
 * to reduce the number of redundant transmissions.  The netflood
 * primitive does not perform retransmissions of flooded packets and
 * packets are not tagged with version numbers.  Instead, the netflood
 * primitive sets the end-to-end sender and end-to-end packet ID
 * attributes on the packets it sends.  A forwarding node saves the
 * end-to-end sender and packet ID of the last packet it forwards and
 * does not forward a packet if it has the same end-to-end sender and
 * packet ID as the last packet.  This reduces the risk of routing
 * loops, but does not eliminate them entirely as the netflood
 * primitive saves the attributes of the latest packet seen only.
 * Therefore, the netflood primitive also uses the time to live
 * attribute, which is decreased by one before forwarding a packet.
 * If the time to live reaches zero, the primitive does not forward
 * the packet.
*
 * \section channels Channels
 *
 * The netflood module uses 1 channel.
 *
 */

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/**
 * \file
 *         Header file for the best-effort network flooding (netflood)
 * \author
 *         Adam Dunkels <adam@sics.se>
 */

#ifndef NETFLOOD_H_
#define NETFLOOD_H_

#include "net/queuebuf.h"
#include "net/rime/ipolite.h"

struct netflood_conn;

#define NETFLOOD_ATTRIBUTES   { PACKETBUF_ADDR_ESENDER, PACKETBUF_ADDRSIZE }, \
                              { PACKETBUF_ATTR_HOPS, PACKETBUF_ATTR_BIT * 5 }, \
                              { PACKETBUF_ATTR_EPACKET_ID, PACKETBUF_ATTR_BIT * 4 }, \
                                IPOLITE_ATTRIBUTES

struct netflood_callbacks {
  int (* recv)(struct netflood_conn *c, const linkaddr_t *from,
               const linkaddr_t *originator, uint8_t seqno, uint8_t hops);
  void (* sent)(struct netflood_conn *c);
  void (* dropped)(struct netflood_conn *c);
};

struct netflood_conn {
  struct ipolite_conn c;
  const struct netflood_callbacks *u;
  clock_time_t queue_time;
  linkaddr_t last_originator;
  uint8_t last_originator_seqno;
};

void netflood_open(struct netflood_conn *c, clock_time_t queue_time,
             uint16_t channel, const struct netflood_callbacks *u);
void netflood_close(struct netflood_conn *c);

int netflood_send(struct netflood_conn *c, uint8_t seqno);

#endif /* SIBC_H_ */
/** @} */
/** @} */