At 10:24 PM 9/14/2007, George Rogato wrote:
Optimized Link State Routing protocol (OLSR) is a routing protocol
that is optimised for mobile ad-hoc networks, sometimes called
wireless mesh networks. It is a proactive link-state routing
protocol that floods a full topology table to all nodes in the
network which then compute optimal forwarding paths locally
First I've never used OLSR so I know little about it.
However the key words here is "mobile" and "ad-hoc". In the 900
"mesh" application I'm dreaming of, similar to muni-wifi, the nodes
aren't mobile, nor are they "ad-hoc". The nodes are fixed to poles
and buildings, and the nodes are infrastructure just like we always
used. Also I don't plan on using any single radio systems requiring
locustworld, etc.
Lets say a node can see two upstream nodes and two downstream
nodes. And then lets say one of the upstream nodes fails. Not much
thought needs to be given as to which is the most Optimal route to
take. i.e. The only other one. Now for a zillion laptops floating
around all over the place forming an adhoc network, with nodes
coming and going in a dynamic fashion, yeah I'm sure a specialized
wireless mesh protocol is necessary such as locustworld, et al.. I
believe somewhere around 30 or more mesh wireless (mobile) mesh
protocols have been developed over the years each with it's own pros
and cons. I'm not thinking about anything mobile unless it is the
users laptop roaming around his house and yard. In that case, I
don't think I need a "mesh" protocol at all, or anything other than
common interior routing gateway protocols. Am I right? I wonder
what Strix uses in their multi-radio systems? <eg>
Allen
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