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If we need to augment our mesh to cover our target area how will we do that? | If we need to augment our mesh to cover our target area how will we do that? | ||
*"same stuff but on a larger physical scale" | *"same stuff but on a larger physical scale" | ||
*a higher traditional network | **mesh nodes with more broadcast power | ||
**some mesh nodes also have point-to-point links with each other | |||
***tight-beam RF | |||
***optical | |||
****laser | |||
****incoherent light | |||
*a higher order traditional network | |||
=Crazy Ideas= | =Crazy Ideas= | ||
Revision as of 16:47, 10 February 2011
Meetings Thursdays at 7:30ish starting 10 Feb 2011
Brainstorming
Directions
Which way will we head with this?
- support Networking_Strategic_Simulation
- community wifi
- cold hard maxout of the current tech
- Development of communication devices with readily available (i.e., cheap) technology.
- Communication technology which lends itself to improvisational construction.
What Next?
After we have our direction what are we gonna do?
- define coverage
- building
- block
- neighborhood
- city
- intercity
- regional
- infinite (assuming it will grow with the technology's ability to support it)
- audience - who's gonna use this
- purpose - what will this be used for (surfing the web or just email/twitter/<insert favorite text service here>)
- Use case - circumstances under which this technology will usually be deployed
- disaster
- communication infrastructure failure
- censorship
Aproaches
Mesh
What will our approach to the network level of the mesh be?
- broadcast
- "actor" oriented - assume no knowledge in other nodes
- nested - roll with what exists and use it to connect seperate traditional nets
- Hybrid
- clients communicate using wifi with hubs
- hubs relay traffic using one of the mesh networking protocols
Extension
If we need to augment our mesh to cover our target area how will we do that?
- "same stuff but on a larger physical scale"
- mesh nodes with more broadcast power
- some mesh nodes also have point-to-point links with each other
- tight-beam RF
- optical
- laser
- incoherent light
- a higher order traditional network
Crazy Ideas
- viral node generation - present captive portals on carriers that require the user to become a "infected" and themselves present captive portals to other non infected devices (zombie smartphone apocalypse)