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

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

On Sep 15, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Robert Keyes wrote:

> I am going to put OLSR on my G1 at some point.
> 
> But I wonder if OLSR is really the most appropriate mesh protocol to be 
> used on a portable device. Portability would seem to indicate frequent 
> change of routing, and the updates required might swamp a network. I 
Bob you are missing one point I believe:

most of the time your G1 will be sleeping!
Hence it will only (re-)establish a topology when you turn it on again / when you wake it up.

I experienced this once in a rather funny setting on an iPhone:
http://www.olsr.org/?q=node/24


> haven't tried this yet, and I imagine there is some network tuning which 
> could help minimize this, but a portable node joining a large network of 
> stationary nodes may not be so welcome.
> 
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