On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Michael Stone <mich...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 18:49:22 UTC, Michael Blizek wrote: >> >> I have not seen *any* ready-to-use of meshing so far that is very >> scaleable. >> In order to scale, you basically have to limit the depth of routes you >> discover and the length of routes you take. Otherwise in average, >> everybody >> needs to forward more data compared to the amount of data end nodes can >> send/receive. > > In the years since my time with OLPC, I have found this paper: > > "Capacity of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks", > http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.28.6218 > to be a good explanation of some of the underlying issues. > Do you have any competing citations that I might add to my library? >
You should distinguish mesh networks and ad-hoc wireless networks. Mesh networks are not implicitly wireless, nor ad-hoc. The problems in that paper refer to ad-hoc. Make a mesh network variegated and you won't have those problems. e.g. Node A, B and C create an ad-hoc network at channel 1. Node D acts as an access point for stations node E, F and G at channel 11. Node A, E and J are connected in a wired LAN. Node J also forms another ad-hoc network, say at channel 1 because it is not in the range of A, B and C. The more the network is variegated, the less you face problems that are related to ad-hoc wireless networks. Perhaps, it will also bring new sort of problems, admittedly. No citations, though. Sorry. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss