com.sun.spot.peripheral.radio
Interface IRadioPacketDispatcher

All Known Implementing Classes:

RadioPacketDispatcher

public interface IRadioPacketDispatcher

Acts like a basic pass through layer that's responsible for sending/receiving packets from the MAC layer IRadioPacketDispatcher also provides a set of radio control facilities for application developers such as controlling power output, channel and PAN ID.

Version:

0.1

Author:

Allen Ajit George, Jochen Furthmueller

Method Summary

void	deregisterPacketQualityListener(IPacketQualityListener listener) Undo a previous call of registerPacketListener()
void	initialize(ILowPan lowPanLayer) Called by LowPan to initialize the dispatcher.
void	registerPacketQualityListener(IPacketQualityListener packetListener) Register to be notified with Link Quality information.
void	sendPacket(RadioPacket rp) Send a radio packet

Method Detail

initialize

void initialize(ILowPan lowPanLayer)

Called by LowPan to initialize the dispatcher. Note: This is only called after LowPan is completely started up. This method is there to prevent cycles in the initialization process

Parameters:

lowPanLayer - reference to the fully started LowPan instance

sendPacket

void sendPacket(RadioPacket rp)
                throws NoAckException,
                       ChannelBusyException

Send a radio packet

Parameters:

rp - the radio packet to send

Throws:

NoAckException

ChannelBusyException

registerPacketQualityListener

void registerPacketQualityListener(IPacketQualityListener packetListener)

Register to be notified with Link Quality information.

Parameters:

packetListener - the class that wants to be called back

deregisterPacketQualityListener

void deregisterPacketQualityListener(IPacketQualityListener listener)

Undo a previous call of registerPacketListener()

Parameters:

listener - the class that wants to be deregistered