"Mesh" Dreams = OLSR

[Ed McNierney]

Folks -

Thanks for getting the discussion rolling.  Although it may be obvious, I want to point out one aspect of OLPC's "mesh" needs that has complicated matters.  Our XO laptops are used at home, in a sparse network environment, and at school, in a dense network environment, and all levels of density in between.  Mesh with relatively static nodes is easier and has been implemented a number of different ways worldwide.  One of OLPC's chief needs is a system that works as seamlessly as possible - for 8-year-old users in large groups.  It's not reasonable (IMHO) to tell our users to adjust their txpower manually to adapt to their current RF density.  To provide a good solution, we need to be able to figure out how to make that adjustment automatically.

	- Ed


On Aug 24, 2010, at 1:32 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote:

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> On Aug 24, 2010, at 7:32 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
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>> On Aug 24, 2010, at 1:29 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote:
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>>> Hm.... well, you at least got me thinking how we can make a small dense indoor mesh working without APs.... interesting challenge. Like think about replacing those smart APs by a distributed version. Interesting...
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>>> a.
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>> Maybe a suitable challenge during a "Wireless Mesh Battle(1)."
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>> (1) http://battlemesh.org/
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> 
> sure :)
> Maybe the next one :) So far they were always outdoors.
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