Hi,
I'm a roboticist. My current project involves creating robots that are mobile ad-hoc routers for a network. The robots are supposed to autonomously determine where to move to improve the bandwidth/latency/reliability/etc. of a network. In order for this to work, each robot needs to have a rough approximation of the topology of the network, so they can measure if their movements are improving or worsening the network. The topology information needs to include not just what the network is currently like (which, from the documentation, appears to always be a tree), but a complete graph, with measured information about the bandwidth/latency/reliability of the links between pairs of nodes. Is it possible to get this information from batman-adv?
a single batman node does not have the information about all links and their properties (bandwidth/latency/reliability) in the network. The reason is quite simple: The larger the mesh the more outdated your information will be.
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Regards, Marek