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JeeMesh

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JeeMesh is a mesh protocol in development at HacDC to extend the JeeNode RF12 low power wireless protocol for mesh routing, packet fragmentation, and (more) reliable delivery.

RF12 has the following limitations:

  • up to 30 nodes (typically 26 nodes and 4 servers/gateways)
  • MTU 66 bytes
  • range of about 30' to 50' at 915mhz

We intend to extend these limits somewhat:

  • MTU 1023 bytes
  • range up to 200' by routing through up to four nodes on a mesh

A 16 bit header is added using the first two bytes of the RF12 packet data as follows:

  • 5 bits for original source node
  • 5 bits for final destination node
  • 2 bits for ttl
  • 4 bits for fragment sequence

This allows us to reconstruct 1024 byte JeeMesh packet from 16 64-byte packet fragments. We further add another 8 bit header to the first packet fragment, reducing the MTU to 1023 bytes:

  • 4 bits number of fragments
  • 4 bits packet type