Hi On 27.03.2014 21:51, Dietrich Ayala wrote: > One of the biggest problems in the markets that Firefox OS has shipped is > connectivity - it's usually some combination of rare, slow, unreliable and > expensive. > > Now that we're looking at shipping millions of extremely low-cost smartphones > to larger markets with similar conditions, these problems will likely > increase before they get better. > > Should we look to mesh networking to fill this gap?
YES! :D > Someone in the Serval project drafted some ideas on integrating their mesh > network approach into Firefox OS: > > http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=content:tech:serval_mesh_for_firefoxos Is this just one single app, which implements mesh networking for its own services? If we want to support mesh networking, we might want to look for something more general. An option would be the BATMAN protocol and tools [1]. It operates on OSI layers 2 and 3 and is supported by Linux kernel natively. Best regards Thomas [1] http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
