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On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 06:47:47 Karan, Cem F CIV (US) wrote:
> > 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 simple: The larger the mesh the more outdated your information will be.
> 
> That is actually acceptable and expected.  I just want the information
> between the one-hop neighbors to be relatively timely.  The only
> requirement for the further away robots that I have is that if the robot
> positions and the world are static, then the topology information should
> more or less stabilize over time.  Random fluctuations are OK; they can be
> averaged away without any trouble.  Does that make sense?

I don't know much about robots or your scenario in particular but wifi 
properties do change even when all participants are not moving. Interference 
can come from any external source you can imagine.

Regards,
Marek