> I just was wondering: is NetSuKuKu a mesh network like one of those listed > on Wikipedia here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network ?
No. Is different: in design and in goals. Design: * Netsukuku is a network layer rethinked from scratch, and is usable not only for wireless links, it is not just a routing protocol for IP. You can have a wired portion of a Netsukuku network, and you can run any distance vector routing protocol in given portion of the net, while the QSPN protocol assures the deployment of the nodes in a convenient logical topology. The deployment of the network in automatic, all the information nodes need can be configured at the time of manufacturing. * Wireless Mesh Networks use standard IP protocol as network layer and use a specific routing to organize the network. Based on IP addresses WMN usually require a lot of manual configuration on the nodes, so deplyment is possibile only if there is a single owner of all the nodes, or if there is a community managing the network and agreeing on network configuration (see http://wiki.ninux.org) Goals: * Netsukuku aims to scale to 2^128 nodes in a fully autoconfigurated network. * Wireless Mesh Networks usually rely on routing protocols that scale to O(10^3) with the only goal to use the best metric to connect two given nodes in the mesh. Moreover some mesh protocols optimize the traffic towards a gateway, defining a Spanning Tree, and do not optimize p2p traffic between the nodes. I hope this clarify. I have been generic because I have no idea of your technical background. I also left a comment on your blog. It is very GOOD and IMPORTANT to have people like you making "dissemination", in the sense of speaking to the people about this technologies, but if you have any doubts is better to ask here BEFORE writing something wrong on the blog :) Best Regards Saverio Proto Saverio _______________________________________________ Netsukuku mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dyne.org/mailman/listinfo/netsukuku
