[wsfii-discuss] [Tmplab] First TMPLAB Wireless Battle Mesh - April 11-12th 2009 @ tmplab

[Xavier Carcelle]

"We are pleased to announce that the /tmp/lab  will be organizing a
Spring Wireless OpenWRT Mesh Contest called "Wireless Battle Mesh"
during 2 days (April 11-12th) with the goal of building 3 wireless
mesh networks based on embedded hardware running OpenWRT and different
concurrent mesh routing protocols.

The targeted architecture will be 3 networks of 25nodes + 1 wireless
managment networks (10-20 nodes) to achieve realistic size of nodes
number, data traffic, configuration problems. The architecture will be
set-up indoor and outdoor around the building of the /tmp/lab.

OpenWRT will be the selected for the BoardSupportPackage running on
the different hardware nodes and a core network configuration will be
built on Linux servers with user-friendly features such as :
*VLANs
*Captive portal
*Authentication
*Admin portal

Concerning the mesh-protocols, selected targeted protocols are :

*OLSR : IP-based mesh routing platform (http://olsr.org and openWRT
package available)

*BATMAN : Layer2-based mesh protocol (http://open-mesh.org) and
available as a kernel module for Linux and packaged in OpenWRT

*BABEL : Layer-3 mesh protocol developed by University Paris 6,
available for Linux and soon to be packaged for OpenWRT
(http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/)

Concerning the hardware node, we are looking for hardware sponsors
that could enjoy this "real-case" contest by providing 50-100 nodes to
the event. This sponsor will be actually displayed on the organization
website as well as during the event. The feedbacks for the hardware
manufacturers can be not only from the users but also from the network
community running real-case test (academic- or community-wide).

The TMPLAB core team."

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