Orchestra

Overview

Orchestra is an autonomous scheduling solution for TSCH, where nodes maintain their own schedule solely based on their local RPL state. There is no centralized scheduler nor negotiation with neighbors, i.e. no traffic overhead. The default Orchestra rules can be used out-of-box in any RPL network, reducing contention to a low level. Orchestra is described and evaluated in Orchestra: Robust Mesh Networks Through Autonomously Scheduled TSCH, ACM SenSys’15.

Requirements

Orchestra requires a system running TSCH and RPL.

Getting Started

To include Orchestra in your application, all you need to do is to include its module, by adding the following line to your makefile:

MODULES += os/services/orchestra

Configuration

Orchestra comes with a number of pre-installed rules, orchestra-rule-*.c. You can define your own by using any of these as a template. A default Orchestra configuration is described in orchestra-conf.h, define your own ORCHESTRA_CONF_* macros to override modify the rule set and change rules configuration.