[Olsr-users] MIC metric [was: Mesh Networks Research Group]

[Henning Rogge]

Am Donnerstag 26 Juni 2008 04:45:24 schrieb Juliusz Chroboczek:
> Thanks a lot for the pointer.  The complete reference is
If you have good ideas about implementing it, just post them. At the moment we 
are still in the planning phase. The move to MIC will have to wait until we 
switch to OLSRv2, because the new packet format is much more extensible.

> I haven't finished the article yet, but the metric is not isotonic, as
> I expected.  (Diversity is an intrinsically non-isotonic property,
> there's just no way around it.)  To quote the tech report cited above,
>
>     Although MIC is not isotonic, our novel routing protocol,
>     named Load and Interference Balanced Routing Algorithm
>     (LIBRA), can create a virtual network from a real network
>     and decompose MIC into isotonic link weight assignments on
>     this virtual network.
Exactly that's what we have planned for olsrd in the two versions after 0.5.6 
(not sure if get it ready for 0.5.7).

Henning

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