New, more realistic multi-hop network testbed

Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos ypod at MIT.EDU
Sun Jun 8 12:20:42 EDT 2008


Quoting Michail Bletsas <mbletsas at laptop.org>:
> david at lang.hm wrote on 06/08/2008 12:00:30 PM:
>
>> one more (which may be considered a varient of d)
>> i) 802.11s meshing in bad RF environments
>>
>> this is where there are a small number of XO machines (so you don't have
>
>> the 802.11s traffic issues), but where there are a large number of other
>
>> 802.11 devices in the area
>>
>> a unofficial testbed for this would be to take a half dozen XO machines
> to
>> a tech conference and try to run them.
>>
> What you are describing is nt far away from the wireless environment at
> 1CC...
>
> M.
>

Exactly. RF noise is not the problem in a mesh network, or at least not 
anymore.
The 70-node test at 1CC showed that what is important is _how_ you use the
network, not how much noise you have.

p.




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