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

[Mitar <[e-mail]>]

Hi!

This sounds good. :-)

If I remember correctly, in other parts of the document we mention
that people like to mix these, and also even use BGP and other more
standard things, yes? This is just a section with specific routing
protocols readers might not be familiar with?


Mitar

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Jose Saldana <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Mensaje original-----
>> 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.
>
>>
>>
>> Mitar
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> Thanks,
>
> Jose
>



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