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SOLDER- DS&T Exploration Fund (EF 1617), A Mesh Networking Development Proposal
Mesh Networking Definitions:
- Byzantium- A mesh network os a network in which some of the nodes route traffic for other nodes in addition making services available and acting as clients in the network. In traditional wired or wireless networks, every node has a default gateway through which it sends all traffic not destined for adjacent nodes on the local network. If that default gateway goes down the local network is isolated. In a mesh network, every node on the local network can potentially act as a gateway for oll other nodes within broadcast range. Under the hood of a mesh there is no default gateway, there are only neighboring routers that will relay traffic. Also, due to the sheer number of routers in a mesh, you don't have to worry about your active connections dropping just because you walked three blocks away and your smartphone decided that another two or three mesh nodes were its preferred ("default") gateway; this is called mobile IP. (These notes were derived from http://project-byzantium.org/faqs ).
Mesh Networking Software List
- FLUX/FLUXWIRE - CCI's default, sole source contractor provided, default mesh networking tool
- SONOS - Proprietary Mesh Networking Software for consumer based Speaker System
- TINC - Self-routing, mesh networking protocol, used for compressed, encrypted, virtual private networks. It was started in 1998 by User #74835, User #74834, and User #74836, and released as a GPL-licensed project (http://www.tinc-vpn.org)
- Byzantium - Ad-hoc wireless mesh networking for the zombie apocalypse (http://project-byzantium.org)