On Mar 11, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Michael Fazio wrote:
Hello,
My name is Michael. I am currently working on a large robotics project and I am thinking of using B.A.T.M.A.N to facilitate a MANET to communicate between a number of bots and a base station. I was hoping to get a bit of information regarding the suitability of B.A.T.M.A.N for such an application. Any information would be helpful (general or specific). Here are some of the details of our project.We will be using up-to 14 bots in our project (each must be network aware).
It will scale to 14 nodes :)
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I was hoping to know what type of issues I might run into using B.A.T.M.A.N adv in such a scenario. For instance, what kind of throughput might I expect in the described environment? Link stability issues? General suitability? How would B.A.T.M.A.N compare to OLSR or Babel? I am really interested in anything that anyone has to offer.
I think all protocols will be fine for 14 nodes. But please report your findings. I assume that B.A.T.M.A.N. will be a bit slow (depends on the timeing settings of course) when you have many routing switches/high mobility (in the presence of long paths) but that it will find good paths instead (there is always a trade-off between these things).
It should be easy enough to try out all three protocols! I am especially interested in a highly mobile setup.
The reason I am pushing for B.A.T.M.A.N is because of the ability for us to develop our application layer using IPv4 TCP/UDP on-top of a mesh network driven by routers running openWRT & B.A.T.M.A.N. I want to take as much network layer knowledge away from out application layer.
IMHO you will have this with all three protocols.
Best, a.