[OLPC Networking] Re: [olpc-software] "Mesh" Software

Ivan Krstic krstic at fas.harvard.edu
Tue Apr 18 20:45:47 EDT 2006


Alan Cox wrote:
> There is a lot of mobile phone literature in this area, but they
> mostly deal with the assumption that only the very end nodes are
> highly mobile so I'm not sure how useful it is.

Not very; the sensor network guys have had to reinvent a lot of wheels.
Incidentally, it might be a useful abstraction to consider the OLPC mesh
as just a beefy sensor network. The operational requirements overlap
pretty strongly.

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