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

[Emmanuel Baccelli <[e-mail]>]

Hi Paul,
thanks for your feedback. This document aims at describing "some important
aspects, experienced over the past decade, of multi-hop ad hoc wireless
communication between routers", as stated in the abstract.

The goal is to reach a common uderstanding of the basic aspects presented in
the draft (asymmetry, time-variation, non-transitivity, and radio-range
aspects of communcation), which we can then refer to when discussing further
issues, such as the ones you mention, for instance.

The goal is NOT to write another problem statement, nor to be exhaustive
regarding issues that AUTOCONF should address.

Do you have any comments about the description of the basic aspects
presented in the draft?


Cheers,

Emmanuel





On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Paul Lambert <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> The draft-baccelli-multi-hop-wireless-communication-01 provides an
> interesting list of issues that might be addressed by this working group.
>
> From a quick review it does not appear to address:
>  - ad hoc network coalescing.  Coalescing has clear implications for
>   IP address assignment
>  - there is no mention of multicast versus unicast issues.  Perhaps
>   since the document makes all links potentially asymmetric and
>   unreliable there is no distinction.  At least for 802.11 ad hoc
>   I find significant implications.
>  - it does not address link security establishment
>   The process of setting up the link security is out of scope, but as
>   I've mentioned in earlier emails this has a clear impact on available
>   networking mechanisms.
>   It is also a very important architectural consideration to ensure that
>   IP address assignment has some level of security.
>
> Asymmetric links in all "ad hoc" networks.  Is it possible to partition our
> problem statements so that this is just one of several optional attributes
> that must be addressed?
>
> Most modern wireless MAC layers have reliable unicast.  I can see some
> broadcast only links - like satellite broadcast, but outside military
> applications I am not familiar with broadly deployed commercial wireless
> networking technologies that are based on asymmetric unicast transmissions.
> Perhaps someone on this list could point me to the technologies that they
> are considering for this requirement.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
>
>
> ________________________________________
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> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 2:04 AM
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> Subject: [Autoconf] updated draft on aspects of multi-hop wireless
> communication
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> following the fruitful discussions about initial version of the document,
> here is an update to the draft describing aspects of multi-hop wireless
> communication:
>
>
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-baccelli-multi-hop-wireless-communication-01.txt
>
>
> Again, the goal of this document is to identify a consensus about this
> topic, and then use this to move on quicker with the rest of the work...
>
> Please review it, and provide feedback as soon as possible.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Emmanuel
>