[wsfii-discuss] OLSR-NG kickoff

Wed Jan 24 17:40:34 UTC 2007

dear aaron,

why not a fryfonk/olsr - *N G O*,

isn't that the real global acceptance-deficiency
in the international-conference-travel-scene?

sincerely yours,
offlinehorst at web.de

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:01:48 +0100
aaron <aaron at lo-res.org> wrote:

> 
> Dear reader,
> 
>     we - http://www.funkfeuer.at - a free wireless community network  
> in Vienna - are proud to announce our first official olsr-ng  
> workshop. If you happen to be around in Vienna on
> 
>     * Saturday, 27th of January
>     * 14:00 - 18:00    (going out & party afterwards, open end)
> 
> then feel invited to join us at our http://olsr.funkfeuer.at - OLSR- 
> NG project presentation.
> 
>      * Location: http://www.metalab.at/wiki/Lage
> 
> 
> Who should attend?
> ==================
> 
> * Researchers and students of computer sciences or similar fields who  
> are interested in working in the field of mobile ad-hoc networks  
> (MANETs)
> * You should be good at C programming in addition
> 
> 
> What is OLSR-NG?
> ================
> 
> Worldwide, many community WLAN networks work with OLSR (RFC 3626) as  
> a base internal routing protocol (c.f. www.olsr.org for a  
> reasonable implementation).
> However the most commonly used implementation from olsr.org has -  
> although it is very adaptable and in fact was adapted many times - a  
> few drawbacks which we can notice in real existing WLAN community  
> networks.
> 
> Thanks to our sponsor www.netidee.at (IPA/www.nic.at) we are able to launch a 
> bounty  competition for enhancing OLSR. We call this new project "OLSR- 
> NG" (next generation). But you can substitute any name you like -  
> batman-olsrmix or whatever. The point being:
> 
>  >> The very best approaches and patches for OLSR will be rewarded  
> with money prizes in addition <<<
> 
> The central goals of OLSR-NG are:
> 
>    * scalability: we want to scale up to 1000+ nodes (real world, not  
> simulation)
>     if possible. Simulations will be helpful but won't count.
>    * improve and/or replace the basic algorithms (fisheye/ETX/MPR/...)
>    * improve the C code for the current olsr.org implementation  
> (+security audit)
>    * write a new RFC from the results we have learned .
> 
> 
> Details will be presented on Saturday, 27th. of Jan. (language will  
> be english for international guests)
> 
> 
> Thanks go to funkfeuer.at and especially www.netidee.at (NIC.AT /IPA) who
> made this  possible.
> 
> 
> 
> ---- snip ----
> 
> 
> Program
> ==========
> 
> 14:00		opening, general intro, what is freifunk, what is funkfeuer,  
> what is OLSR-NG ?
>         problem description
> 15:00       break
> 15:15		intro into OLSR and other MANET protocols (same presentation  
> as dec 2006)
> 16:00       break
> 16:15		Detailed Description of the olsr.org algorithms and currently  
> implemented improvements (ETX,fisheye)
> 16:45		Code demonstration  & analysis (by Bernd Petrovitsch)
> 16:15       break
> 17:30		Details of new algorithm ideas... forming of groups for special  
> topics
>   . ...
> 
> 19:00		going out to a typical "Schnitzelhaus" [1]
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [1] Adlerhof, Burggasse 51, http://www.lokalfuehrer.at/?site=detail&id=1469
> 
> 
> 
> 
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