{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/osf-an-open-source-framework-for-synchronous","title":"OSF: An Open-Source Framework for Synchronous Flooding over Multiple Physical Layers","arxiv_id":"2208.12850","date":"2022-08-26","proceeding":null,"authors":["Michael Baddeley","Yevgen Gyl","Markus Schuss","Xiaoyuan Ma","Carlo Alberto Boano"],"abstract":"Flooding protocols based on concurrent transmissions are regarded as the most reliable way to collect or disseminate data across a multi-hop low-power wireless mesh network. Recent works have shown that such protocols are effective for narrowband communication not only over IEEE 802.15.4, but also over the BLE 5 physical layers (PHYs). However, to date, existing literature has only built synchronous flooding solutions on top of a single PHY, and there has been no attempt to leverage different PHYs at runtime to increase performance. This paper fills this gap and presents OSF, an open-source framework that enables the design of multi-PHY synchronous flooding solutions thanks to a novel radio driver and middle-ware architecture capable of dynamically switching the underlying physical layer. This allows exploitation of the specific benefits of each PHY (e.g., higher data-rate, increased robustness) on-demand during each flood, increasing performance. We tailor OSF to the off-the-shelf nRF52840 platform, and showcase its benefits by comparing single-PHY and multi-PHY synchronous flooding solutions on a real-world testbed.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12850v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.12850v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"osf-an-open-source-framework-for-synchronous","repo_url":"https://github.com/open-sf/osf","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}