Re: [gaia] draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments. Mitar review, question #8: Mesh routing protocols

["Jose Saldana" <[e-mail]>]

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> De: Mitar [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Enviado el: jueves, 14 de abril de 2016 11:19
> Para: Jose Saldana <[e-mail]>
> CC: gaia <[e-mail]>
> Asunto: Re: [gaia] draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments. Mitar review,
> question #8: Mesh routing protocols
> 
> Hi!
> 
> This is my take on improved routing protocols section:
> 
> 7.1.2.2.  Mesh routing protocols
> 
> A large number of Alternative Networks use a customized version of the Optimized
> Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) developed by the olsrd open source project
> (http://olsr.org/).
> The OLSR protocol defined in [RFC3626] has been extended with the ETX metric
> (https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~rtm/papers/etx.pdf) and other features for use in
> Alternative Networks, especially wireless ones. A new version OLSRv2 [RFC7188]
> has been starting getting traction in some community networks
> (https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2852742).
> 
> B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced (https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki)
> is a layer 2 routing protocol, which creates one bridged network and allows
> seamless roaming of clients between wireless nodes.
> 
> Some networks also run the BMX6 protocol [Neumann_a].
> The protocol is based on IPv6 and tries to exploit the social structure of Alternative
> Networks.  In [Neumann_b] a study of three proactive mesh routing protocols is
> presented, in terms of scalability, performance, and stability.
> 
> Babel [RFC6126] is a layer 3 loop-avoiding distance-vector routing protocol that is
> robust and efficient both in ordinary wired networks and in wireless mesh networks.

Thanks a lot!

I have added your new references and rebuilt the text. I have put the reference to [Neuman_b] in the last paragraph, as it talks about Babel.

I have added a reference to a paper about BATMAN advanced. Its first reference points to http://www.open-mesh.org/:

D. Seither, A. König and M. Hollick, "Routing performance of Wireless Mesh Networks: A practical evaluation of BATMAN advanced," Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2011 IEEE 36th Conference on, Bonn, 2011, pp. 897-904.
doi: 10.1109/LCN.2011.6115569   


7.1.2.2.  Mesh routing protocols

   A large number of Alternative Networks use customized versions of the
   Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) [RFC3626].  The
   [olsr.org] open source project has extended the protocol with the
   Expected Transmission Count metric (ETX) [Couto] and other features,
   for its use in Alternative Networks, especially wireless ones.  A new
   version of the protocol, named OLSRv2 [RFC7188] is becoming used in
   some community networks [Barz].

   B.A.T.M.A.N.  Advanced [Seither] is a layer-2 routing protocol, which
   creates a bridged network and allows seamless roaming of clients
   between wireless nodes.

   Some networks also run the BMX6 protocol [Neumann_a], which is based
   on IPv6 and tries to exploit the social structure of Alternative
   Networks.

   Babel [RFC6126] is a layer-3 loop-avoiding distance-vector routing
   protocol that is robust and efficient both in wired and wireless mesh
   networks.

   In [Neumann_b] a study of three proactive mesh routing protocols
   (BMX6, OLSR, and Babel) is presented, in terms of scalability,
   performance, and stability.


   [Barz]     Barz, C., Fuchs, C., Kirchhoff, J., Niewiejska, J., and H.
              Rogge, "OLSRv2 for Community Networks", Comput. Netw. 93,
              P2 (December 2015),
              324-341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2015.09.022,
              2015.

   [Couto]    De Couto, D., Aguayo, D., Bicket, J., and R. Morris, "A
              high-throughput path metric for multi-hop wireless
              routing", Wireless Networks, 11(4), 419-434 , 2005.

   [Neumann_a]
              Neumann, A., Lopez, E., and L. Navarro, "An evaluation of
              bmx6 for community wireless networks", In Wireless and
              Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob),
              2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on (pp. 651-658).
              IEEE. , 2012.

   [Neumann_b]
              Neumann, A., Lopez, E., and L. Navarro, "Evaluation of
              mesh routing protocols for wireless community networks",
              Computer Networks, Volume 93, Part 2, 24 December 2015,
              Pages 308-323 ISSN 1389-1286,
              http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2015.07.018, 2015.
   [Seither]  Seither, D., Koenig, A., and M. Hollick, "Routing
              performance of Wireless Mesh Networks: A practical
              evaluation of BATMAN advanced", Local Computer Networks
              (LCN), 2011 IEEE 36th Conference on, Bonn, 2011, pp.
              897-904. doi: 10.1109/LCN.2011.6115569, 2011.
> 
> Comparison of performance and stability of routing protocols is an ongoing process
> and many routing protocols participate in regular event to compare, test, and cross-
> pollinate implementations at the yearly Battlemesh event (http://battlemesh.org/).

I think this last paragraph does not fit into the document. This is an activity around routing protocols for CNs, which is IMHO out of scope of the document.

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Thanks,

Jose