Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2007-01-04 Severity: wishlist * Package name : batman * Version : 0.1 * Upstream Authors : Thomas Lopatic, Corinna 'Elektra' Aichele, Axel Neumann, Felix Fietkau, Marek Lindner * URL : https://www.open-mesh.net/batman * License : GPL2 * Copyright (c) 2006 Thomas Lopatic, Corinna 'Elektra' Aichele, Axel Neumann, Felix Fietkau, Marek Lindner Description : better approach to mobile adhoc networking B.A.T.M.A.N is a new approach to Ad-Hoc-Routing, unlike other algorithms that we are aware of. Reactive MANET protocols search for routes when a node initiates communication to a remote node. Proactive protocols (all link-state algorithms and some distance-vector algorithms) calculate routes proactively from all nodes to all nodes in the mesh-cloud, whether they are necessary or not - while reactive protocols search for routes on demand. B.A.T.M.A.N doesn't calculate or search for routes - it continuously detects the existence of routes by forwarding and receiving broadcast packets, and it proactively populates the routing-table with nodes in the mesh. The algorithm does not try to find out which path packets follow to a remote node. B.A.T.M.A.N merely checks which single hop neighbor it has to send a package to in order to push it on the best way to a node in the mesh. I'm in contact with upstream and we agreed that I'll wait until version 0.2 before releasing a first package. Then I'll also make the package description more useful. regards, Holger
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