Mesh Networking

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"
• a higher 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)

Project

Journal

MeshNetworkingMeeting_20110210