Meshing costs (Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies)

[Major Variola (ret)]

Meshnets (everyone's a router) is cool, admittedly.  But are you going
to spend *your* battery life routing someone else's message?

Fixed P2P energy costs are trivial.  Not so for mobile P2P.

And if your meshnodes are mains-powered, you have wires going there,
so wireless is less useful.  Solar nodes might be useful.


At 03:19 PM 4/9/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>A pretty densely distributed radio mesh with good (geographic routing)
>algorithms would tend to use the shortest path. Very small cells based
on
>current WiFi or ultrawideband/digital pulse radio might have to route
around
>obstacles (large high buildings, flow along the nodes with aerials
dangling
>into the streets). MobileMesh doesn't seen to be the single solution,
at
>least one contender exists. Both are being used in practice, alas not
yet in
>your $100 garden-variety WiFi routers (these do bridging already,
though).