[B.A.T.M.A.N.] statistics & topology provided by batman-adv (UNCLASSIFIED)

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] statistics & topology provided by batman-adv (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Karan, Cem F CIV (US)]

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If this question is answered somewhere else, please forgive me; I spent this
morning looking through documentation, but not quite finding answers to what
I'm looking for.

I'm a roboticist.  My current project involves creating robots that are
mobile ad-hoc routers for a network.  The robots are supposed to
autonomously determine where to move to improve the
bandwidth/latency/reliability/etc. of a network.  In order for this to work,
each robot needs to have a rough approximation of the topology of the
network, so they can measure if their movements are improving or worsening
the network.  The topology information needs to include not just what the
network is currently like (which, from the documentation, appears to always
be a tree), but a complete graph, with measured information about the
bandwidth/latency/reliability of the links between pairs of nodes.  Is it
possible to get this information from batman-adv?

Thanks,
Cem Karan

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Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] statistics & topology provided by batman-adv (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Marek Lindner]

Hi,

> I'm a roboticist.  My current project involves creating robots that are
> mobile ad-hoc routers for a network.  The robots are supposed to
> autonomously determine where to move to improve the
> bandwidth/latency/reliability/etc. of a network.  In order for this to
> work, each robot needs to have a rough approximation of the topology of
> the network, so they can measure if their movements are improving or
> worsening the network.  The topology information needs to include not just
> what the network is currently like (which, from the documentation, appears
> to always be a tree), but a complete graph, with measured information
> about the bandwidth/latency/reliability of the links between pairs of
> nodes.  Is it possible to get this information from batman-adv?

a single batman node does not have the information about all links and their 
properties (bandwidth/latency/reliability) in the network. The reason is quite 
simple: The larger the mesh the more outdated your information will be.


> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

Lucky me.  :-)

Regards,
Marek