[Battlemesh] Collaborate on TDMA development

[Mitar]

Hi!

AirOS is based on OpenWrt and there is SDK. So from practical
perspective (and not ideological open source/free software perspective)
this solves most of the customizations you might want to do.


Mitar

> Should I understand the absence of answers to the mail below as there is
> little interest and/or resources available?
> 
> Gui Iribarren skrev 2012-10-22 22:08:
>> Hello people,
>> in several chats with NicoEchaniz, we end up concluding it would be
>> wonderful to have a libre TDMA implementation for mac80211, so that
>> ath9k and other current drivers can partially overcome the awful
>> performance issues of a shared medium.
>>
>> AirOS does a wonderful job when handling several hidden stations, but
>> it's unfortunately a propietary software solution. Flashing OpenWRT
>> opens the box of possibilities in terms of software but severely
>> impacts radio performance.
>>
>> We think solving this would greatly benefit the wireless community
>> networks worldwide, and several attempts / achievements have been made
>> in the past. Sadly, the solutions are now outdated, or were absorbed
>> by private companies at some point in the development cycle.
>> A key problem in the past was the lack of a uniform stack like
>> mac80211 provides, so the implementations were tied to one particular
>> driver (madwifi for example) and had to be reinvented / ported when
>> that driver was abandoned / deprecated.
>>
>> So, what do you think about coding a TDMA solution for mac80211 stack?
>> Are there any current projects that are already on this track, that we
>> haven't come accross?
>> If a team is formed, we could propose the idea for an NLNET /
>> shuttleworth / etc grant.
>>
>> Background / Past efforts linkdump:
>>
>> projects: jazzymac, srawan, JaldiMAC, wildmac, fractel, 2P. LiT,
>> WiLDnet,karlNet TurboCell, wiccp, frottle, nstreme, oswave
>>
>> http://patraswireless.net/software.html
>> http://wafreenet.org/Frottle
>> http://www.netequalizer.com/Hidden_Node_White_Paper.php
>> https://github.com/shaddi/jaldimac
>> http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/drupal/node/128 (wildnet)
>> http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/drupal/wireless
>>
>> frottle ipkg (old)?
>> http://www.ipkg.be/repositories/26
>>
>> a possible design on frottle for meshes
>> http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/wiki/?MWRPAdhocFrottleDev
>>
>> tdma on freebsd by sam leffler
>>
>> AirJaldi
>> http://drupal.airjaldi.com/blog/
>> http://drupal.airjaldi.com/
>>
>> nice summary of experiences
>> http://wiki.airjaldi.org/tiki-index.php
>>
>> AirJaldi Bandwidth Maximizer (BwM)
>> http://drupal.airjaldi.com/node/264
>> http://drupal.airjaldi.com/node/265
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