Research Article

The Synchronized Peer-to-Peer Framework and Distributed Contention-Free Medium Access for Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 2

Payload format of dGTS commands.
(a) dGTS request command payload: allocation

Command IDDestination addressdGTS lengthList sizeStarting slot list

8 bits64 bits4 bits4 bitsList Size 4 bits
0x0A1–151–151–15 each

(b) dGTS request command payload: deallocation

Command IDDestination addressdGTS lengthList sizeFlagsStarting slot

8 bits64 bits4 bits4 bits4 bits4 bits
0x0A1–1500–31–15

(c) dGTS response command payload

Command IDDestination addressdGTS lengthList sizeStarting slot

8 bits64 bits4 bits4 bits4 bits
0x0B1–150/11–15

(d) dGTS conflict command payload

Command IDDestination addressTx CountRx CountdGTS list

8 bits64 bits4 bits4 bits(Tx Rx) (4 4) bits
0x0C0–150–151–15, 1–15