[wsfii-discuss] [AirJaldi-Summit] Cell Phone Mesh?

[Adrian Dabrowski]

a few years ago, some friends and i tried to make a proof-of-concept 
cell phone/pda bluetooth mesh network/file sharing for an university 
lecture, but discovered that most cell phones and bluetooth devices have 
a very limited number of simultaneous bluetooth connections, due to 
frequency hopping schemes. depending on the phone modell and bluetooth 
mode you can also end up with just one connection.
finally we had to make our demonstration in an simulator.

but new cellphones are also available with wifi - has somone tried 
porting olsr or another mesh protocol to symbian?

adrian


> Alternatively, if the software can be ported to Symbian/ME, perhaps 
> standalone cellphones can themselves be tweaked to act as mesh nodes. 
> Has any work been done in this area? Do the energy requirements make 
> this impractical?