Hi, Thank you for all your ideas. I am actually just looking for a good PhD student with ability to write code either in babeld and/or in re6st (http://git.erp5.org/gitweb/re6stnet.git?js=1).
Then it will be his or her choice to decide what he or she prefers to work on. Regards, JPS. > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:34 PM, <j...@nexedi.com> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >>> > There is a budget available in a public institution to sponsor a PhD > >>> > student who would work on babel. > >>> > >>> Do you have a topic in mind? Who would be the supervisor? What's the > >>> deadline? > >> > >> Everything can be discussed as long as it helps re6st or SlapOS to achieve > >> further resiliency on enterprise applications. > >> > >> Supervisor would be at ENST. > >> > >> Current ideas: > >> - scalability of babel (1,000,000 nodes network with no backbone) > > You will have to change babeld to only consider a slice of the network. > > You can run hundreds of babeld inside small openwrt VPSes: > > https://github.com/zoobab/openwrt-openvz > > You can also use LXC. > > >> - ability for public babel network to survive attacks > > OLSRd had some encryption key for the packets, don't know for Babel. > > About metrics, there was the idea to export infos from the radio layer > (especially from the linux kernel), don't know if this is possible > right now with the latest kernel changes. > > -- > Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org> > FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 - +32-2-3500762 > "In July 2005, after several failed attempts to legalise software > patents in Europe, the patent establishment changed its strategy. > Instead of explicitly seeking to sanction the patentability of > software, they are now seeking to create a central European patent > court, which would establish and enforce patentability rules in their > favor, without any possibility of correction by competing courts or > democratically elected legislators." >
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