Subject: [manet] Aggregation of multiple MANET messages in one packet and the amount of time to wait before emitting a packet

From: Ian Chakeres <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:50:57 -0400

Fred recently brought up timing related to aggregation of MANET messages into packets. 

DYMO currently states

"""
Implementations MAY choose to temporarily delay transmission of messages for the purpose of aggregation (into a single packet) or to improve performance by using jitter [RFC5148].
"""

Fred's comment was
"""
There may be value in specifying upper bounds here. For example, if a host has a retransmission algorithm, it generally will do so on a timeout. It would be nice to have some guidance on how to estimate reasonable RTTs.
"""

I'd like to ask the group; how do you think we should provide implementors better guidance on aggregation of MANET messages, and what do you think might be a good rule of thumb for the amount of time to wait before sending a packet?

Thanks.
Ian Chakeres