[CWN-Summit] OPeN & community wireless networking:

[Sascha Meinrath]

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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Sascha Meinrath
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Acorn Worker Collective  ***  CU Wireless Network  ***  Free Press
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