Simon,
Thank you very much for taking the time and answering my questions. Great work on Batman, the little I've seen of it, it seems to be a very well made routing protocol.
Best,
Jeremy Martin Office: (443)-395-7475 Jeremy.j.martin33.civ@mail.mil Radio Frequency Communications Division, RF Modeling and Simulation Branch C5ISR Center, Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate
-----Original Message----- From: Simon Wunderlich [mailto:sw@simonwunderlich.de] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2020 2:45 AM To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org Cc: Martin, Jeremy J CIV USARMY CCDC C5ISR (USA) via B.A.T.M.A.N b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org; Martin, Jeremy J CIV USARMY CCDC C5ISR (USA) jeremy.j.martin33.civ@mail.mil Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re:
Hi Jeremy,
On Thursday, January 16, 2020 9:06:50 PM CET Martin, Jeremy J CIV USARMY CCDC C5ISR (USA) via B.A.T.M.A.N wrote:
My/My Teams intent is to have 4 radios in total, 2 on one pc and two on another. Our plan is to have Batman take care of the switching between which radio to use in order to transmit data between these two PC's. One radio is high frequency radio (60 Ghz) and the other would be a lower frequency radio and the idea is to have batman switch between these radios once the higher frequency radio is dropping between a certain TQ.
BATMAN will switch by default when one link has a better TQ (towards the final destination) than the other link, so I believe this should happen by default.
My primary questions regarding this scenario would be, 1) Are there specific standards the radio chipsets would need to support in order for them to work in this scenario?.
Normally you would want IBSS mode or 802.11s mode work. BATMAN can also work in AP/Sta mode, although the packet loss counting may be biased since broadcast handling works a bit different than in IBSS/11s. But for point-to- point links it might just work.
- Would Batman-adv be adequate enough to be able to handle a 1Gb/s
data transmission and be able to swap accordingly to the lower frequency radio?
If your radio and CPU are powerful enough, batman-adv is able to handle it, yes.
Cheers, Simon