- Scalable to big meshes
This is tricky. The mesh routing schemes I have seen, and the discussions at the IETF (manet) etc. Seem to all have a hard cieling in the thousands of nodes.
Seriously, how much of an issue is this for WiFi based routing? ISTM that even with wide deployment the most common mesh is going to be a few gateway internet connected nodes, a few routing non-internet connected nodes and tens or hundreds of clients hung off these. Any client is unlikely to be more than 2 or 3 hops away from a non-wireless internet link. I would of thought this vastly simplifies the routing problem compared with the situation where every client is a full mesh routing peer.
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