Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Master thesis with B.A.T.M.A.N.

[Tobias Hardes <Tobias.Hardes@autistici.org>]

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Hi Marek,

Hi Marek,


On 09.11.2014 06:03, Marek Lindner wrote:
> On Friday 07 November 2014 17:30:39 Tobias Hardes wrote:
>> For this I have to work on a thesis and I after I had a few discussions
>> with one of the professors and the other participants from our Freifunk
>> group, I worked on a thesis description which is about a simulation of
>> the Freifunk-Network in Paderborn with a focus on B.A.T.M.A.N..
>>
>> The description is available here:
>> http://www.ccs-labs.org/theses/MA-201410-Freifunk.pdf
>>
>> We have more than 500 nodes in Paderborn which are using B.A.T.M.A.N.
>> and we have a few problems here (see the document).
>> The overall goal is to create a simulation using OMNet++ and do an
>> evaluation of the results.
>>
>> This E-Mail is just to inform You about this plan. The actual work will
>> start in March/April.
> Sounds definitely interesting! Please bear in mind that the development of 
> B.A.T.M.A.N. V has progressed to a point where it might be usable in test 
> scenarios. As Andrew pointed out, you might want to spend some time on the 
> current/new ideas as opposed to working on the old stuff.
>
> Question regarding your 30GB of overhead estimation: Is Freifunk Paderborn 
> running the same centralized server infrastructure with VPNs, etc to tunnel 
> all batmn-adv traffic over the internet as other Freifunk communities do these 
> days ?
Yep, we have multiple "Gateways" which are used to compensate missing
wifi connections between our nodes, but we also started to created some
wifi backbone infrastructure... This is still an ongoing project
>
> Cheers,
> Marek
>  



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