[Battlemesh] Batman V in Linux 4.6

[Henning Rogge]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Antonio Quartulli <a at unstable.cc> wrote:
>> "BATMAN V protocol – B.A.T.M.A.N. (Better Approach To Mobile Adhoc
>> Networking) adds support for the V protocol, which does not rely on
>> packet loss anymore, but the estimated throughput."
>>
>> During the WCW recordings, it was said that this throughput metric was
>> inspired from OLSR.
>>
>
> I would say the work was done in parallel (the metric based on throughput was
> discussed already at the WBM in Aalborg - if not earlier), but OLSR was faster
> to come up with a complete implementation.

I agree... the idea itself is quite old (google for "ETT metric") and
the implementation of OLSRv2 and BATMAN is a little bit different
because of the adaptation to Distance-Vector/Link-State-Protocol.

>> Any idea how it works?
>
> https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/BATMAN_V

If you want to compare:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7779

Henning Rogge