Re: [Autoconf] aspects of multi-hop wireless communication

[Rex Buddenberg <[e-mail]>]

You haven't been watching ... both US Army and US Marine Corps are
filling up the space between brigade and company with IEEE 802.16 gear.
And routing it all together.

For military, WiFi is a bauble.  Army worked through a proposal to
implement it in command centers (think tents in the desert) and finally
scrapped the proposal.  Because you could indeed clip the ethernet wire
but not the power cord, so not much payback.  And in order to get that
niggardly payback they were going to pay a lot for a layer 2 encryption
solution.  Spent the money on .16 gear instead ...

This is wide of the MANET issues.  But MANET (and autoconf) is
applicable to a lot of wireless LAN and radio-WAN problems well beyond
WiFi.

On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 16:20 +0100, Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
> Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote:
> >> I think some solutions exist at PHY and MAC layers in the case of
> >> 802.11.
> > 
> > As has been said many times before, MANET is not just
> > about 802.11.
> 
> I may have missed something.  What other than 802.11 is it about?
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
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