Hello everyone! I'm studying CS at the Technical University of Munich. I want to try extending Open80211s mesh networking to include Scalable Source Routing (SSR), a routing algorithm conceived by Prof. Thomas Fuhrmann (Karlsruhe/Munich) [1]. SSR [2] is in some ways similar to the chord overlay network, and is based on the idea to "push chord into the underlay". It features some very promising performance characteristics [3]. (At least in our simulations, that is.) As far as the draft standard is concerned, extending 802.11s to include own path selection code and link metrics should be very possible. If I'm not mistaken, at present the implementation doesn't quite feature a lot of API to make this possible. Now, where should I begin? My plan is to first extend the open80211s code in linux-wireless to have some path selection/link metric switching capability which should be controlled by iw. Then I'll port the SSR code base (C++) to ANSI C and include it in linux-wireless (man, that sounds easy. let's see... ;) ). (then I will need an OUI, well, ... maybe first test it w/ some own value and care about that if my stuff works) 1. Any comments and/or tips on my plan of attack? 2. Linux kernel noob literature has it that i should post my stuff early and often. I'm not very experienced, but if you are interested, i'll try to follow the plan and post patches that help me reach my goal (which is mostly the path link / link metric switching stuff). 3. Rather a motivational question, but anyways: Maybe after having tested the code in a real setup (if I'm lucky I can use the wifi testbed of the TU Berlin), do you give my (or a related, that is) project any chance of being included in the official (vanilla linux) distribution? That would totally rock my world. And my grade, probably, too ^^ But after all it's just 'proprietary' (as the standard puts it) routing code. (of course it will be GPL'd) Thanks! Flo [1] http://www.net.in.tum.de/de/mitarbeiter/fuhrmann/ and http://i30www.ira.uka.de/aboutus/people/personal/fuhrmann?lid=en&publ=y [2] Linyphi is a user-space implementation of SSR done in C++, see http://linyphi.net/ and also for a good introduction to SSR in general the paper http://i30www.ira.uka.de/research/documents/p2p/2006/di06linyphi.pdf [3] On the performance of SSR: http://i30www.ira.uka.de/research/documents/p2p/2007/fuhrmann07wons.pdf -- 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
