[Battlemesh] Using 11s as link layer

Henning Rogge hrogge at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 15:59:37 UTC 2014


On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Pau <pau at dabax.net> wrote:
>
> Hello.
> Recently someone told me it was possible to use 802.11s without the
> routing layer, thus as a link layer protocol such as ADHOC or
> Infrastructure.

I advertised the idea on the battlemesh.

> It can be done by setting the parameter mesh forwarding to 0 as follows:
>
> iw mesh0 set mesh_param mesh_fwding=0

Exactly... you can also put this into the OpenWRT wireless config.

> Did someone make some research on that? Is it worth to use 11s as a link
> layer protocol and then run a layer 3 routing protocol (such as OLSR or
> bmx6) on top of it?

I have yet to test this (should work without problem) because I was
busy with a kernel patch for 802.11s

> I would like to see a comparison between ADHOC and 11s as link layers in
> a MANET.
>
> IMO, some advantages of using 11s are:
>
> 1. Better support for some drivers
> 2. It is possible to create multiple 11s VAP in a single WiFi radio (up
> to 8)

3. you can bridge it to another interface if necessary.
4. it does NOT try to synchronize the TSF counter of your wifi card.

Henning Rogge


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