[Commotion-dev] SPAN Apps Published to Google Play

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

On Jan 22, 2013, at 10:32 PM, Teco Boot <teco at inf-net.nl> wrote:

> 
> Op 22 jan. 2013, om 22:04 heeft Paul Gardner-Stephen het volgende geschreven:
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> on RFM23BP:
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>> In principle it should be possible to run OLSRd or similar over the
>> long range mesh, although the limited bandwidth would not be very nice
>> for IP-based applications.  The concept has really been designed with
>> MDP, VoMP and Rhizome in mind, that can tolerate low-bandwidth
>> situations.
>> 
>> But back to OLSRd, that should not be a big problem, provided that you
>> can reduce the heart rate from the typical 1Hz - 2Hz to, say, 0.01Hz -
>> 0.05Hz, which should be possible because of the 16x - 30x range
>> increase, which means that nodes should move in and out of range 16x -
>> 30x more slowly.  In fact, node transit times may in fact average more
>> than 16x - 30x for a variety of reasons.
> 
> With OLSR/OLSRv2, it is not possible to set the update rate on a link.
> The originator of for example TC messages defines the rate. If it is
> a higher frequency, e.g. mains powered router on high rate links, a next
> hop link faces this high rate.
> 

But you could run a whole network (provided you control all the nodes or their default olsr.conf settings) in that slow mode. Agreed, you can not force a node to rate limit the TCs.
However, that would be an interesting extension maybe. Not sure if it makes sense though.

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