[emstar-design] Socket interface to Emstar?

[Ben L. Titzer]

That sounds excellent. If that is the case, then our job is much 
easier! Kevin Chang and I will look into this.

Thank you,
Ben

On Dec 8, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Lewis Girod wrote:

> if you can run avrora on the same machine as emstar, you don't need a
> socket, you can just open the appropriate link device file directly.
> you can do this from java using the "raw" file access provided (i
> beleive) by fileinputstream.  each packet is a single read() or
> write() to the open file.  the packet is preceded by a defned header
> containing various information -- src/dst. etc.
>
> the link devices are named:
>
>     /dev/sim/groupXX/nodeYY/link/mote0/data
>
> where the group and node numbers correspond to the emstar
> simulation/emulation you are running.
>
> since it involves writing less code, this might be the fastest path to
> getting something running.
>
> otherwise, you would need to write a program that ran locally on the
> emstar machine that accepted socket connections and sent/received
> those messages to the appropriate link devices.  this would be a
> normal sockets program, written in the language of your choice.
>
> lew
>
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:01:11 -0800, Ben L. Titzer <titzer@cs.ucla.edu> 
> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Following up on the discussion yesterday between Deborah's group and
>> ours, I was wondering what facilities currently exist in Emstar for
>> sending packets to/from a socket?
>>
>> For the first connectivity between Avrora and Emstar, I envision one
>> node running in Avrora which is connected to Emstar via a socket so
>> that radio packets going to/from the node on Avrora are sent across
>> this socket.
>>
>> Any ideas? Suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Ben Titzer
>>
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