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If only there was an entire class of protocols developed over the last 30 years to negotiate and route network traffic efficiently.
by look_lookatme 11y ago
If only there was an entire class of protocols developed over the last 30 years to negotiate and route network traffic efficiently.
- PaulHoule 11y agoThese work well for wired networks, but not for ad hoc wireless networks. Mesh networks are on of the many areas of CS that produces endless conference proceedings but no working systems because the DOD has the hots for it.
- nycmesh 11y agoThere a many huge mesh networks all over the world, just not so many in this country. Guifi in Spain has 29,208 active nodes so there is no argument that mesh doesn't scale. https://guifi.net/en/node/38392 https://guifi.net/en/node/38392
- makomk 11y agoI can't find much in the way of specific technical information in English, but from what I can tell Guifi has are tiers of nodes, ordinary nodes and supernodes, where nodes connect only to supernodes and the supernodes have fixed, manually configured directional radio links to other supernodes. It's a lot easier to get thirty thousand nodes on a mesh network if the vast majority of them aren't actually taking part in the meshing and the ones that are use fixed infrastructure links. It basically avoids all the inconvenient "mesh" part.