Byzantium Sprint 3

Sprint Dates: Fri 29 April 2011 - Sun 1 May 2011

Goals

• Revisit sprint 1
  • Gather metrics to determine efficiency of protocols.
    • Sizes of routing protocols' packets.
    • Number of packets per second/minute/hour transmitted by each protocol.
    • Average amount of traffic during normal operation.
  • Determine how many nodes can participate in a mesh before responsiveness or bandwidth begin to degrade.

Stuff To Bring

• anything that can run babel
  • laptops/netbooks
  • desktops with wireless cards
  • openwrt compatible routers (if you're feeling lucky/adventurous)

Homework

• install babeld on every machine you plan to bring to the sprint
• [optional] install a kernel with support for batman-adv on the same machines (it's built into the kernel after version 2.6.38+ ) or build the modules separate from the kernel
• readup on route and ip/ifconfig commands in linux
• readup on ipv6

Experiments

• network density
  • hypothesis: if the nodes are positioned very densely, then the network quality will degrade.
  • test: position nodes at increasing densities starting with evenly distributed nodes at their maximum effective range, and run tests to measure network quality at each level of density.

Suggestions

• Babeld install guide
• LiveCD guide
• Twitter hashtag #hacbyz ??

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