Back in the early 2000s the community wireless network in Perth Australia “WAFreeNet” made a token passing system for WiFi to solve the hidden node problem (obv

Back in the early 2000s the community wireless network in Perth Australia “WAFreeNet” made a token passing system for WiFi to solve the hidden node problem (obviously not for mesh networks like this): http://frottle.sourceforge.net/ http://frottle.sourceforge.net/ My favourite quote which can still be found in the slashdot comments “ There was nothing new about the concept - polled systems and token rings are common knowledge in communications and networking. It wasnt difficult - it only took me a weekend, and that included the time spent learning perl (it was my first go). It was even operating at the wrong layer - using UDP control messages to schedule IP traffic. Regardless of all it's limitations, it worked, so I got the other WAFreenet members involved with testing and development.”