[CWN-Summit] OPeN & community wireless networking:

[Stelios Valavanis]

can you find another OPN node even if it's 2 hops away?

On Saturday 27 November 2004 02:43 am, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Matt Westervelt brought a crazy idea to team CUWiN while were were all in
> Denmark together a couple months back -- that community wireless networks
> could somehow utilize the unaffiliated, off-the-shelf access points of our
> neighbors to relay packets between network nodes (and coordinate their
> activity).  What this would allow us to do would be to connect areas of a
> community wireless network that couldn't otherwise directly "see" each
> other by bouncing packets off of neighboring APs.  What's nice about this
> solution is that it may actually _lessen_ interference for the middle AP
> (that's relaying information) while, at the same time, improving
> connectivity for the community wireless network.  The idea is spelled out
> here:
>
> http://www.saschameinrath.com/?q=node/view/46
>
> It would be extremely useful if folks would take a few minutes to look it
> over and comment on any potential flaws (or brilliant solutions) to the
> idea.  We need both technical and non-technical eyes on the proposal.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> --Sascha

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