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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] statistics & topology provided by batman-adv
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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simple: The larger the mesh the more outdated your information will be.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