Hi! On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> wrote: > (I'm actually wondering if Delay-Tolerant Networking, as opposed to Mesh > Networking, is what you want to be working on.)
I do not think so. DTN use "store and forward" so that data eventually reaches destination. I think more about organic structure where it is normal that some information is available at the moment and some not. Similar to how people interact. When you meet somebody you can get information form her and give some information to her. And with moving around (the city for example) you access different people and different information and give different information. You rarely store some information for somebody else and when you see her give her this information. It happens (like "say cheers to this and this person when you see her") but it is not main characteristics and I see it is as a higher level (service level for example, some kind of relay messaging) in the network. Yes, I like social interactions and networks more. Especially trust networks. And this is why I see mesh networks as useful in such context. (By the way, If somebody knows a PhD study concentrated around trust networks I would be more then interested to hear about it.) But you gave me an interesting idea. Based on small world hypothesis it would be interesting to use such temporary mesh networks for relay messaging from a friend to a friend over friends (using a trust network). Could be an interesting "social routing" approach. Useful for some 1 April RFC. ;-) Mitar _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
