[Olsr-users] OLSR in Android...a good idea?

[Henning Rogge]

Am Donnerstag 16 September 2010, 21:04:38 schrieb Charles Boyd:
> Hi Robert!
> 
> First, I think your idea of flagging portable devices on an OLSR network is
> interesting and would be worth considering further.
The flag you talk about is called "Willingness" in the OLSR protocol. Combined 
with a working MPR algorithm it can do exactly what we were talking about. So 
it should be possible with the next generation of OLSRd (and the OLSRv2 code).

> I spent most of this
> summer (through GSoC) working on a mesh networking application for Android
> which is built on OLSR. The project is open source, you can browse the
> repository online here:
> 
> http://wlan-lj.net/browser/trunk/meshapp
> 
> And the wiki page for the project (which needs an update) is here:
> 
> http://wlan-lj.net/wiki/Podrobnosti/MeshApp
> 
> I am still maintaining this project, but I have been busy with moving and
> school for the last few weeks so there have not been any changes to the
> code base recently. I will have time this weekend to work on a few
> critical issues that will make the application (hopefully) workable in
> some basic sense. If you have any thoughts or suggestions, I would be very
> glad to hear them.
> 
> I have much of the equipment needed to set up a testbed here in Boston,
Wow, that sounds really great. I have to look at this app...

If we can combine this with some (IPv6 based ?) stateless autoconfiguration, 
we could build a mesh for smartphones (and other devices) that can work out of 
the box without any kind of configuration.

Henning

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