[OLPC Networking] Path discovery sanity

[Ricardo Carrano]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Robert Withrow <bwithrow at nortel.com> wrote:

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> I fear that in a proactive protocol, the overhead in a dense network will
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> Is there any dirt-simple, rough-and-ready way to simulate these things in
> such a away one can get a good first-level approximation of what the results
> might be using such a protocol?  In wireless it seems like theory and
> practices are more divergent in practice than they are in theory.  If an
> afternoon of effort could produce some kind of simulation, it might be
> easier to hack and test than to theorize and argue...  ;-)
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As long as we agree that simulation is something in between reality and
theory. ;-) there are modules for NS2, for AODV and OLSR. But If I
understood correctly Osama Aboul-Magd would be running simulations with
another tool (I was kicked off our last teleconference two times, so maybe I
missed something, I apologize if so).

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Ricardo
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