On 11/15/14, 7:57 AM, "Margaret Wasserman" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>On Nov 15, 2014, at 7:40 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> Mark, please scratch my previous offer to implement a stub-only variant
>>of
>> Babel.  Please let me know how much flash and RAM you give me, and I'll
>> do my best to fit Babel into that amount.
>
>In the impromptu meeting on Thursday, I believe that James Woodyatt said
>that his nodes have 64K of ram and that code executes-in-place out of
>ROM.  He didn't say how much of that 64K is currently used for data for
>other parts of the system.
>
>You have said that the Babel implementations have a sole requirement for
>libc, but I don't know if they also require Linux?
>
>My understanding is that the Nest boxes have their own mechanisms for
>routing between themselves, and that Nest does not plan to change that
>protocol for home deployments.  They are hoping that one or more of their
>units within a home deployment will be able to connect to a homenet
>network, providing access to the homenet without running a homenet
>routing protocol on all of their nodes or serving as a transit network
>for other traffic within the home.
>
>I think you may see a similar requirement for SEP (Smart Energy Profile)
>nodes that run RPL for routing within a IEEE 802.15.4 low-power wireless
>network.  They will continue to route among themselves, but may want a
>way to attach their stub network to a homenet network.  Some of these
>nodes have similar capabilities to the Nest nodes that James has
>described.

Since the assumption is that the device runs HNCP anyway, the intent is to
use that for the stub-only routing.

Thanks,
Acee 




>
>>> I mean, babel, for example, is like, 61k, on mips with the sole
>>> dependency on libc.
>> 
>> I'm seeing 90kB on AMD64.  That includes three extensions to the core
>> protocol (source-specific routing, diversity routing, support for
>>overlay
>> networks), but not the cryptographic MAC extension.
>
>Are the current Babel implementations designed to execute-in-place out of
>ROM?
>> 
>> Memory usage is less than 100kB in typical deployments.  A (pessimistic)
>> upper bound on memory usage (not counting malloc overhead) in is given
>>by
>> 
>>   (88 * neighbours + 48 * total_routers) * redistributed_prefixes
>> 
>> where a redistributed prefix is counted once per redistributing router
>> (e.g. two distinct edge routers redistributing the default route counts
>>as
>> two).  This means that if you have a network with 100 routers
>>advertising
>> 400 prefixes, a router with 5 neighbours needs at most 200 kB of RAM.
>
>I don't know what numbers we are using to consider scaling for homenet
>networks.  Mark, are there back-of-the-envelope numbers for what we
>consider "a typical homenet" and a "largest possible homenet" that we
>could use to determine how much RAM Babel would be likely to use in those
>cases?
>
>Margaret
>
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