On Friday 07 November 2014 17:30:39 Tobias Hardes wrote:
For this I have to work on a thesis and I after I had a few discussions with one of the professors and the other participants from our Freifunk group, I worked on a thesis description which is about a simulation of the Freifunk-Network in Paderborn with a focus on B.A.T.M.A.N..
The description is available here: http://www.ccs-labs.org/theses/MA-201410-Freifunk.pdf
We have more than 500 nodes in Paderborn which are using B.A.T.M.A.N. and we have a few problems here (see the document). The overall goal is to create a simulation using OMNet++ and do an evaluation of the results.
This E-Mail is just to inform You about this plan. The actual work will start in March/April.
Sounds definitely interesting! Please bear in mind that the development of B.A.T.M.A.N. V has progressed to a point where it might be usable in test scenarios. As Andrew pointed out, you might want to spend some time on the current/new ideas as opposed to working on the old stuff.
Question regarding your 30GB of overhead estimation: Is Freifunk Paderborn running the same centralized server infrastructure with VPNs, etc to tunnel all batmn-adv traffic over the internet as other Freifunk communities do these days ?
Cheers, Marek