Hi Pau, I agree with your assessment: 11s brings a number of benefits over ad-hoc. In addition to the ones you listed, I would add:
6. symmetric security (SAE) 7. customizable path selection mechanism (which you could use with your custom routing) 8. power save 9. interoperability: there are some incompatible ad-hoc implementations out there as WFA did not test above 11 Mbps. open80211s made vendor neutrality and interoperability a priority since day one. The only point that is debatable is 2: there aren't that many cards/drivers that support it. Best of luck, Javier On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Pau via Devel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > I'm one of the developers of the libre-mesh project [1]. Our aim is to > develop an OpenWRT based solution for quick and easy building free/libre > mesh networks. > > Our network architecture is quite different from the common ones, we are > mixing two routing protocols in layer2 and layer3 (batman-adv and bmx6). > You can find more information about it here [2]. > > Until now we were using Ad-Hoc as link layer, however recently we have > started to consider the idea of using 11s instead. We are not interested > in the routing layer (HWMP) because we need some features provided by > batman-adv, so we disable it by setting the option mesh_forwarding to > false. > > I've already performed some tests and the results look quite good. Using > 11s instead of ad-hoc bring us some advantages which are: > > 1. Better support for 11n > 2. Better compatibility with drivers > 3. You can bridge an 11s interface to another interface if necessary > 4. It does NOT try to synchronize the TSF counter of your wifi card > 5. You can create up to 8 11s VAP mixed with adhoc, AP, client, etc... > 5. Get benefit of a newer protocol design > > I would like to know your opinion on this topic. None of us now deeply > how 11s works, so we don't really know if what we are trying to do is a > madness or a good idea. It would be also very interesting for us to know > which options can we tun for getting better profit of using 11s as link > layer. > > Thank you for your efforts on developing 11s. > > Cheers. > > [1] https://dev.libre-mesh.org/projects/libre-mesh > [2] > https://dev.libre-mesh.org/projects/libre-mesh/wiki/NetworkArchitecture > -- > ./p4u > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
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