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diff --git a/data/db.yaml b/data/db.yaml
index 3f0a1c2..02ca1c9 100644
--- a/data/db.yaml
+++ b/data/db.yaml
@@ -7,25 +7,41 @@
features:
access:
name: Channel access
+ description: Basic method for channel access
access.random:
name: Random
+ description: >
+ Stations access the medium in a random, uncoordinated fashion.
access.token-passing:
name: Token-passing
access.polling:
name: Polling
+ description: >
+ Base or master station polls slaves, granting them acces to the
+ medium.
access.reservation:
name: Dynamic reservation
+ description: >
+ Stations request transmission resources
access.schedule:
name: Static schedule
+ description: >
+ Scheduled access to the medium.
+ radio:
+ name: Radio
+ description: Features of the radio hardware.
radio.carriersense:
name: Carrier sense
topology:
name: Topology
+ description: The network’s topology.
topology.singlehop:
name: Single-Hop
- description: MAC relies on upper layers to transmit packet to out-of-range stations
+ description: >
+ MAC relies on upper layers to transmit packet to out-of-range
+ stations
topology.multihop:
name: Multi-Hop
description: MAC transports data through multiple hops
@@ -38,7 +54,9 @@ features:
description: Star
application:
- name: Intended applications
+ name: Applications
+ description: >
+ Target applications the protocol was designed for or explored with.
application.wsn:
name: Wireless Sensor Network
application.vanet:
@@ -51,7 +69,8 @@ features:
time:
name: Time model
time.discrete:
- name: Discrete, synchronized
+ name: Discrete
+ description: Discrete and synchronized
time.continuous:
name: Continuous
@@ -63,7 +82,7 @@ features:
name: Low-power listening/preamble sampling
reliability:
- name: Reliability machanisms
+ name: Reliability
# unreliable is default
reliability.retransmission:
name: Retransmission
@@ -75,11 +94,15 @@ features:
name: Error correcting codes
realtime:
- name: Real-time features
+ name: Real-time
realtime.guaranteed:
name: Guaranteed
+ description: Latency is guaranteed or bounded.
realtime.probabilistic:
name: Probabilistic
+ description: >
+ Protocol was designed with latency in mind and tries to reduce it,
+ but an upper bound cannot be guaranteed.
channels:
name: Channel usage
@@ -106,18 +129,24 @@ features:
deployment:
name: Deployment
+ description: >
+ How and when stations or the whole network is deployed.
deployment.static:
name: Static
- description: Nodes at fixed/planned positions
+ description: >
+ The network is mostly static. Stations are deployed at
+ fixed posititons.
deployment.adhoc:
name: Ad-hoc
- description:
+ description: >
+ Supports joining and leaving of stations in an ad-hoc fashion.
+ Stations move around.
# XXX figure out where to put these
other:
name: Other features
other.qos:
- name: QoS
+ name: Quality of Service
# Algorithms/Protocols
# ====================