Hi All! I'm new in this mailing list... I would like to ask the community the opinion about a network protocol that have been developing for the last year, as a practical development of my PhD @ University of Aveiro - Portugal.
This protocol is in the context of autonomic and distributed network protocols and is intended to be used in both wired and wireless mesh environments. These are some of objectives: - It should be scalable. In other words, it should work well in environments where it thousands of equipments are connected in a mesh topology. - Equipments must switch the packets among themselves without the need to know the full network topology. - Equipments must be able to operate when switching the packets at layer 2, without the need of having IP Addresses (something like MPLS). - Establish routes with bandwidth reservation for QoS purposes (cooperation for this). - The routes should have resilience and if a network equipment or a link goes down, alternative paths should be determined and established. There are other points, but this post is not to discuss the protocol (which is in prototype phase). What I would like to ask is about the interest from the community regarding these kind of protocols. The current tendency for network operators is to centralize the network management operations (SDN's Architecture, Openflow for control, etc). But for massive mesh networks, is there any tendency or interest to have autonomic and decentralized protocols? Are mesh networks growing that massively that the development of these protocols is considered interesting? I learned about Netsukuku about 2 years ago when I was deciding what to do for my PhD, but I noticed that the project (at least the webpage) got little attention in the latest times. I'm a bit concerned about the future of my PhD and I really need some help for opinions and advice. I read Andrea's papers and learned from it, but despite the objectives are the same, the route that I'm taking is largely different... Thank you all for your attention. -- Carlos Miguel Ferreira Researcher at Telecommunications Institute Aveiro - Portugal Work E-mail - [email protected] MSN Contact -> [email protected] Skype & GTalk -> [email protected] LinkedIn -> http://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosmferreira
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