[MLB-WIRELESS] [TECH] Dipole antennas, and melbwireless structure

Ben Anderson a_neb at optushome.com.au
Wed Mar 20 21:34:06 EST 2002


> Ben Anderson wrote:
>
> > > >Even more difficult is a 'moving node' -- a node in a car shifting
> > between
> > > >cells at 100Km/h, could change routing cells every 10 seconds...
Being
> > able
> > > >to maintain a reliable bi-directional connection is going to be
*tough*
> > >
> > > Yes, mobile applications are really problematic.  If we can pull that
one
> > > off, it'd be interesting. :)
> >
> > I think it's do-able, just not trivial :)  It should work, just with
minor
> > interruption - this isn't a major concern to me, the scalability issues
are
> > much more interesting...
> >
>
> If the discovery mechanism can cope with new nodes appearing anyway, and
works well, then hopefully
> this would just be a matter of parameters - ie. shorter timeouts, more
re-tries, etc - for a mobile
> protocol.

Yep, but there's scaling issues if we have to to a route-update across the
network, for the whole network every second to keep track of nodes....

Ben.


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