A simple wireless protocol to let my examples communicate each other. ssWi stands for Shared Slotted Wireless protocol

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This library aims at implementing a simple communication protocol among nodes, abstracting from the hardware. The name ssWi stands for Shared Slotted Wireless. Wireless is part of the name, even though the library abstracts from the hardware, as the first version was entirely focused on the XBee modules and then the name has not been changed.

The communication channel is represented by ssWiChannel, an abstract class which models the channel that the transceivers access to. The concrete classes must implement the functions: init, read and write. The protocol automatically sends and receives data through the selected channel, exploiting the operting system timers. Addresses are not considered as the communication lays on broadcast transmissions.

The protocol provides the ssWiPort abstraction which is like memory areas shared among all the connected nodes. Reading from one port lets the node retrieve the last written value from the other nodes. Writing on one port means sending such value to other nodes.

Objects instantiated from ssWiSocket are the interface for allowing nodes to access the protocol ports.

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TODO:

  • improve the parsing of the received messages
  • communication tests with many nodes (so far, only 2 nodes have been tested)
Committer:
mariob
Date:
Wed Mar 06 08:21:41 2013 +0000
Revision:
13:69ff47a83260
Parent:
7:ca87b7287af9
Child:
24:80345e511574
added comments; MB

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mariob 7:ca87b7287af9 1 /** \file ssWiSocket.hpp
mariob 7:ca87b7287af9 2 * \brief Header for the communication socket
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 3 *
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 4 */
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 5
mariob 0:cc7218c5e5f7 6 #ifndef __SHARED_SLOTTED_WIRELESS_SOCKET_HPP__
mariob 0:cc7218c5e5f7 7 #define __SHARED_SLOTTED_WIRELESS_SOCKET_HPP__
mariob 0:cc7218c5e5f7 8
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 9
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 10 #include "ssWiTypes.hpp"
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 11
mariob 0:cc7218c5e5f7 12
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 13 /** \brief Socket to communciate through ssWi
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 14 *
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 15 * It is not possible to instanciate directly a ssWiSocket, use the static
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 16 * method createSocket
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 17 */
mariob 0:cc7218c5e5f7 18 class ssWiSocket
mariob 0:cc7218c5e5f7 19 {
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 20 /** \brief Port identifier */
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 21 PortID _id;
mariob 0:cc7218c5e5f7 22
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 23 /** \brief Hidden constructor */
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 24 ssWiSocket(PortID id) : _id(id) {}
mariob 0:cc7218c5e5f7 25
mariob 0:cc7218c5e5f7 26 public:
mariob 0:cc7218c5e5f7 27
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 28 /** \brief create a new socket
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 29 *
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 30 * If the network is not inizialized yet, the method returns false
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 31 *
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 32 * \param id port identifier to connect the socket with
mariob 13:69ff47a83260 33 * \return the created socket
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 34 */
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 35 static ssWiSocket* createSocket(PortID id);
mariob 0:cc7218c5e5f7 36
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 37 /** \brief read the last value read through the network on such socket
mariob 13:69ff47a83260 38 *
mariob 13:69ff47a83260 39 * \return the read value
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 40 */
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 41 PortValue read ();
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 42
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 43 /** \brief write a new value to be sent through the socket
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 44 *
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 45 * \param value value to be sent
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 46 */
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 47 void write (PortValue value);
mariob 4:dbbf82c966c2 48
mariob 0:cc7218c5e5f7 49 };
mariob 0:cc7218c5e5f7 50
mariob 0:cc7218c5e5f7 51
mariob 0:cc7218c5e5f7 52 #endif //__SHARED_SLOTTED_WIRELESS_SOCKET_HPP__