Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, if it's not then please let me know. I am an undergraduate student currently studying software engineering, and am in the process of work out what my final year project/dissertation is going to be. Ideally I would like to do something on mesh networking as it's a subject that interests me, and Linux is my operating system of choice. Though I would consider myself fairly proficient at C, and I've studied operating systems though university, I haven't written any real OS code before. Another limiting factor is my access to hardware. I should be able to get my hands on a couple of linksys routers that can run Linux, and a couple of laptops, so this will make doing proper testing very difficult. With this in mind, me and my supervisor came up with the project proposal that I have attached, however neither of us are hugely familiar with Linux mesh development. I was wondering, does this seem like a sensible project proposal? Is there something better I could be doing given my resources? Any feedback on this (even if it's just a "that's a rubbish project, find something else") is greatly appreciated as I have no ideal of the merit of the project proposal. Cheers Keir Lawson "Project Proposal Traditional home wireless networks use a central point, a wireless access point or router, to both connect to the outside world, the internet, and to connect devices within the home to each other. An alternative scheme for interaction between such devices is to use ad hoc networks, where devices communicate directly with each other, or through a path constituted from intermediary devices, avoiding the need for a central point for routing. With the traditional solution, the network has one fail point, if the router goes off-line due to a fault, the network cannot function, however with the potential mobility of home computer devices, for example laptops, an ad hoc solution may also be problematic. This project will investigate combining these two network types with in the context of a home environment, and more specifically, will look at the effect of various different user and application preferences on route selection. For example, a user or application could specify that it prefers to use a traditional managed connection in order to provide a level of quality of service, or another might specify that it does not want to cause congestion at the router and so will always attempt to use an ad hoc path. Other parameters will also be investigated, such as reliability of connection required or speed of connection. It is envisaged that the Linux implementations of routing protocols and the IP protocol stack will be suitably orchestrated/modified in order to react to user preferences over these various parameters, and that the resulting system will be tested using traditional home computing hardware, such as a wireless base station, laptops/desktops, and PDAs." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
