Wireless Congestion Management Option

[Aaron Kaplan]

On Apr 2, 2008, at 5:24 PM, John Watlington wrote:
>
> Meshes of access points don't tend to change topology over time.
> The laptop mesh very well might.   The need to handle this is one
> of the problems causing congestion.
>
> Anybody find new algorithms for mobile meshes ?

As well there are plenty - even to many - new algorithms out there!
So, no shortage of those. But... most are not tested in practice.

AFAIK the current trends go more into finding the proper metric .
At www.olsr.org we currently work at implemting ETT metric (and maybe  
MIC).
This will have a very nice effect on meshes since the routes will be  
chosen also on thruput and interference avoidance.
That especially the last point is very very crucial with anything  
concerning wifi.

best,
a.