[Olsr-dev] Documentation on OLSR-ng

[Hilton Garcia Fernandes]

hi, Hannes ! 

thanks a lot for your careful explanation. 

Thanks particularly for pointing the right files to look at. Some OO 
theoretician once said the best documentation for a software is its code. 

I do agree. 

I hope to learn a lot about OLSR as well as its implementation by reading past 
and current messages in olsr-dev. 

All the best, 
hilton 

On Thursday 21 May 2009 05:02:32 Hannes Gredler wrote:
> hi hilton,
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:21:00PM -0300, Hilton Garcia Fernandes wrote:
> | i've just found out your very interesting presentation named "OLSR-NG
> | status-report", at www.olsr.org/~hannes/olsr-ng-v2.pdf
> |
> | We're implementing a municipal wireless network and would like to know a
> | little more about the routing algorithms used in OLSR-ng.
>
> its a basic Dijkstra algorithm, albeit tuned for speed and efficiency.
> with O(L)*lg(N) complexity (L being the number of Links and N the number of
> nodes).
>
> | May we think that MPR is no longer in use, and that BATMAN is another
> | name for OLSR-ng ?
>
> MPR is still in the code, altough in most delpoyments like in vienna (400
> routers) or berlin (700 routers) it has been turned off (tc-redundancy =
> 2).
>
> some history:
>   back in 2005, some of the folks deploying olsrd had concerns about the
> scaling of link-state protocols - they decided to work on a entire new
> routing protocol (batman),
>
>   the olsr-ng team was believing that fixing the existing olsrd
> implementation (which had a route calculation complexity of O^3.) was
> enough, and the recent deployments in berlin, leipzig and vienna proves
> that.
>
> | In other words, could you please be as kind as to point us to some
> | documentation on OLSR-ng algorithms ?
>
> nothing fancy - just correctly implemented dijkstra and RIB (evaluation).
> all the magic is in olsr_spf.c, process_routes.c and routing_table.c
>
> we have put special emphasis to carefully document the code. it should not
> be that difficult to familiarize yourself. if you have questions, please
> ask them on the developers mailing-list <(spam-protected)>.
>
> HTH,
>
> /hannes



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