Mesh Protocols

Team Compute COMMUNITY CLUSTER
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Introduction

All our Mesh Stations run mesh networking protocols. Currently we are using batman-adv on top of 802.11s.

  1. [OpenWrt Wiki] B.A.T.M.A.N. / batman-adv
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4A0kfg2olo
  3. luci-proto-batman-adv: LuCI Support for the batman-adv protocol by onemarcfifty · Pull Request #5698 · openwrt/luci · GitHub
  4. https://www.radiusdesk.com/old_wiki/technical_discussions/md_mesh_connection

802.11s vs batman-adv

  1. https://wirelesspt.net/arquivos/docs/mesh/Experimental.Evaluation.Of.two.open.source.solutions.for.wireless.at.layer.2.pdf
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Mesh Cells

Virtual Private Mesh (VPM) handles the incompatibilities between different wifi mesh technologies in the market by isolating them into cells and then linking them together in a campus.

Mesh Nodes provided to you should already be preconfigured infrastructure supplier should provide to you tha

Although the wifi mesh feature in most equipment you can buy off-the-shelf are NOT compatible with each other,

802.11s is the default mesh protocol for campus network.

  1. https://www.ieee802.org/802_tutorials/06-November/802.11s_Tutorial_r5.pdf
  2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3821297/

For redundancy VRRP is used:

  1. 802.11s Wireless Mesh Network | Markus Juenemann
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Mesh Cells

Virtual Private Mesh (VPM) handles the incompatibilities between different wifi mesh technologies in the market by isolating them into cells and then linking them together in a campus.

Mesh Nodes provided to you should already be preconfigured infrastructure supplier should provide to you tha

Although the wifi mesh feature in most equipment you can buy off-the-shelf are NOT compatible with each other,

802.11s is the default mesh protocol for campus network.

  1. https://www.ieee802.org/802_tutorials/06-November/802.11s_Tutorial_r5.pdf
  2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3821297/

For redundancy VRRP is used:

  1. 802.11s Wireless Mesh Network | Markus Juenemann
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Mesh Cells

Virtual Private Mesh (VPM) handles the incompatibilities between different wifi mesh technologies in the market by isolating them into cells and then linking them together in a campus.

Mesh Nodes provided to you should already be preconfigured infrastructure supplier should provide to you tha

Although the wifi mesh feature in most equipment you can buy off-the-shelf are NOT compatible with each other,

802.11s is the default mesh protocol for campus network.

  1. https://www.ieee802.org/802_tutorials/06-November/802.11s_Tutorial_r5.pdf
  2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3821297/

For redundancy VRRP is used:

  1. 802.11s Wireless Mesh Network | Markus Juenemann