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From: "Martin Hundebøll" <martin@hundeboll.net>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
	<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Alfred batadv-vis json conformance
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 08:09:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <524D0A04.4090702@hundeboll.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131002160106.GA1939@neomailbox.net>

On 2013-10-02 18:01, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:05:48PM +0200, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
>>> > >I'm also wondering if label and gateway could have more meaningful
>>> > >names? TQ and host? Also, is TT the best?
>> >
>> >Hm, that is a good question. We also have the batman v with new metrics
>> >coming up, I'm not sure how to handle these (maybe Antonio has some
>> >idea?). It is not the TQ-value in the label after all, but some kind of
>> >ETX-converted value (255/TQ if i remember correctly).
> I think the ETX stuff comes from OLSR (but I don't know the details).
>
> I agree with Simon that we should find a generic name (e.g. metric ?) but I am
> not sure we can represent this value in a "algorithm-generic" fashion (and maybe
> we don't want to).

May I suggest that the cjson output includes an entry to tell the 
version of the batman-algorithm?

Users might want to do different map overlays (or whatever) depending on 
the available metric(s).

-- 
Kind Regards
Martin Hundebøll
Frederiks Allé 99, 1.th
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark

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martin@hundeboll.net

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-03  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-01 20:26 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Alfred batadv-vis json conformance Andrew Lunn
2013-10-02 13:05 ` Simon Wunderlich
2013-10-02 13:36   ` Andrew Lunn
2013-10-06  8:35     ` Nicolás Echániz
2013-10-07  9:00       ` Andrew Lunn
2013-10-02 16:01   ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-10-03  6:09     ` Martin Hundebøll [this message]
2013-10-03  8:11       ` Andrew Lunn
2013-10-03  8:22         ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-10-03  8:53           ` Andrew Lunn
2013-10-03  9:00             ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-10-03  9:05               ` Andrew Lunn

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