Re: [gaia] draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments. Nicolas review, question #4: Routing protocols

[Mitar <[e-mail]>]

Hi!

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Jose Saldana <[e-mail]> wrote:
> What about this new version? Thanks!

I have just sent my take on this section. Feel free to use/combine at
your own discretion.
>    The Better Approach To Mobile Adhoc Networking (BATMAN) [Abolhasan]
>    protocol was developed by members of the Freifunk community.  The
>    protocol handles all routing at layer 2, creating one bridged
>    network.  BATMAN-Advanced, which supports roaming inside a mesh
>    network is nowadays more popular.

To be precise: BATMAN was layer 3 protocol. I do not think anybody
uses it at it is. It has evolved into BATMAN-Advanced (layer 2) and
BMX6.


Mitar

>    Parallel to BGP, some networks also run the BMX6 protocol
>    [Neumann_a], which started as a fork of BATMAN.  It 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 used
>    in wireless community networks (BMX6, OLSR, and Babel) is presented,
>    in terms of scalability, performance, and stability.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jose
>
>>
>> Also, not sure if people here are familiar, but this event is very interesting, where
>> many community networks come together and compare various routing protocols
>> and their configurations in a real common
>> testbed:
>>
>> http://battlemesh.org/
>>
>> If people are interested in this stuff, you should come this year. It will be in Porto,
>> Portugal.
>>
>>
>> Mitar
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Jose Saldana <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> > Hi, Nicolás,
>> >
>> >>
>> >> # Section 7.1.2.2
>> >> When refering to bmx6, the wording: " this is an advanced version of
>> >> the
>> > BATMAN
>> >> protocol" is confusing as the other popular BATMAN derivative is
>> >> called
>> > batman-
>> >> advanced.
>> >>
>> >> Maybe this section could have more extensive information as it
>> >> actually
>> > represents
>> >> the core of much development in the Community Network movement.
>> >
>> > This would be the new version of this section:
>> > Please feel free to suggest your improvements to the text.
>> >
>> > 7.1.2.  Routing protocols
>> >
>> >    As stated in previous sections, Alternative Networks are composed of
>> >    possibly different layer 2 devices, resulting in a mesh of nodes.
>> >    Connection between different nodes is not guaranteed and the link
>> >    stability can vary strongly over time.  To tackle this, some
>> >    Alternative Networks use mesh network routing protocols while other
>> >    networks use more traditional routing protocols.  Some networks
>> >    operate multiple routing protocols in parallel.  For example, they
>> >    may use a mesh protocol inside different islands and rely on
>> >    traditional routing protocols to connect these islands.
>> >
>> > 7.1.2.1.  Traditional routing protocols
>> >
>> >    The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), as defined by [RFC4271] is used by
>> >    a number of Community Networks, because of its well-studied behavior
>> >    and scalability.
>> >
>> >    For similar reasons, smaller networks opt to run the Open Shortest
>> >    Path First (OSPF) protocol, as defined by [RFC2328].
>> >
>> > 7.1.2.2.  Mesh routing protocols
>> >
>> >    A large number of Alternative Networks use the Optimized Link State
>> >    Routing Protocol (OLSR) as defined in [RFC3626].  The pro-active link
>> >    state routing protocol is a good match with Alternative Networks
>> >    because it has good performance in mesh networks where nodes have
>> >    multiple interfaces.
>> >
>> >    The Better Approach To Mobile Adhoc Networking (BATMAN) [Abolhasan]
>> >    protocol was developed by members of the Freifunk community.  The
>> >    protocol handles all routing at layer 2, creating one bridged
>> >    network.
>> >
>> >    Parallel to BGP, some networks also run the BatMan-eXperimental
>> >    (BMX6) protocol [Neumann_a].  This is an evolved version of the
>> >    BATMAN protocol which 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.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Jose
>> >
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