Scalability: B.A.T.M.A.N. vs. OLSR

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Transition Strategist (Greg)

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May 22, 2009, 5:40:14 PM5/22/09
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Here is an explanation of what's happened and why OLSR is probably
better:

I saw this - 22C3:
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=8437755878980221100&ei=5hcXSoOgHpj2qAO3uwQ&q=mesh+networking&hl=en&dur=3,
and thought 'hmm, Berlin even tried to make OLSR have more elegant
routing via the Fisheye approach but still decided to go with a
totally new development (B.A.T.M.A.N.). Therefor OLSR must be
structurally inefficient and non-scalable.

But then I dug deeper and found this: http://www.olsr.org/?q=node/13
which shows that the fisheye algorythm never actually worked properly
and that's why OLSR didn't show gains. So now in the Vienna network
there are over 400 nodes and less than %1 cpu tax. Watch it and see.
This means almost no scalability problems for us here in Vancouver.

Also CoovaOM is now released and operational.
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