User talk:Aaron

From What The Wiki?!

here my last minute talk proposal:

cancelled!!!! =

If you are interested, please drop me an email at aaron -atsign - lo-res.org I will send some written presentation.

Title

How to make WLAN based mesh networks scale

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It has been widely acknowled that standard WLAN based MANETs (mobile ad-hoc 
mesh networks) do not scale well (see [1]).
WLAN multi-hop mesh networks rarely scale more than 5 to 7 hops. Apart from 
theoretical observations this factum was even experimentally 
demonstrated by freifunk and funkfeuer.

Scalability however is a central issue 
for applications of MANETs (military, rescue teams, community freenets).
Without scalability our community freenets will always remain 
an obscure albeit interesting topic for a chosen few.
Universities and large corporations (Microsoft) currently conduct a 
lot of research on this topic but no clear solution seems to be in sight.

In this open discussion we will explore together the technical 
issues of why MANETs don't scale and how this issue can be resolved.
A few chosen techniques will be presented - some theoretical, some 
practical - which should allow our community networks to grow.
Finally I would like to discuss the solutions of meshdynamics.com
and find improvements.

[1] http://dailywireless.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2750&src=rss09