Talk:Mesh networking

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Sorry about this, but I changed the word generations. It too much a marketing term and it does not describe that there are three types of distinct configuration to mesh radio node. I believe this concept is a marketing term from deCosta's company. I see that there is no real "generation" upgrade until we see the IEEE standard on wireless mesh. A distinct innovation or upgrade to wireless mesh has not happened. I hope this clarifies the change to the word. Thanks DAM PS I know there will disagreement with this change but I believe the words I choose simply better the describe deCosta excellent description. Thanks again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.186.167.6 (talk) 21:52, 14 December 2007 (UTC)


Mesh network be merged with mobile ad-hoc network? I like the idea of this. I view the mobile ad-hoc network as a type of mesh network, and should therefore be placed under the mesh network article as a sub-category of mesh networks. (the above unsigned comment was added by Matt0401)

Disagree, chiefly because of subject size. See argument on MANET talk page for why they're different subjects. There's been major research & development focusing on MANET that is not applicable to mesh networks in general. That said, material should be sorted to eliminate overlapping information. --Alvestrand 07:01, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Also disagree MESH is a much larger subject, MANET is related to ad-hoc only

I am totally fed up by the random deleters here who think they know more about the subject. I DO NOT agree that some mesh networking projects are here on this page and that others who do THE SAME valuable community research are randomly deleted. It is not factual! BTW: funkfeuer just recently started to continue on OLSR development (from olsr.org) after agreeing with the core maintainers to do so. This can be proven. I DO NOT AGREE with the self acclaimed editors here who just simply like to troll around and delete links to facutally and provably community projects who push the limits of mesh networking WHILE AT THE SAME TIME LEAVING OTHERS IN THE ARTICLE. Not ok, not factual. Delete all or leave the more important ones. If you dont know what is actually happing in this field , then dont edit/delete. Thanks for your understanding -- AaronKaplan

I think the issue is that there are too many external links... Wikipedia's policy is to be an encyclopedia and not a collection of external links. While it is true that there are important projects that deserve a link, we need to keep such links to a minimum. I think a good idea would be to create a new section for the article entitled "Community Projects" or something along those lines, and then insert a brief paragraph containing an external link to the community project's page for each community project? Any input on this idea? --Matt0401 17:43, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Agree with Matt0401. Commercial and unaccredited links removed today Nelson50 15:05, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

"Mesh networking is a subclass of mobile ad hoc networking (MANET)"

I disagree - mesh networks are not exclusively mobile, or necessarily ad-hoc.

I added a reference to SMesh. As one of its authors, I'm biased, so please, edit the paragraph if you consider it unsuitable here. ralucam 17:26, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Generations of Mesh Networking

"There are three distinct generations of wireless mesh architectures. In the first generation one radio provides both backhaul (packet relaying) and client services (access to a laptop). In the second generation, one radio relayed packets over multiple hops while another provided client access. This significantly improved backhaul bandwidth and latency. Third generation wireless mesh products use two or more radios for the backhaul for higher bandwidth and low latency. Third generation mesh products are replacing previous generation products as more demanding applications like voice and video need to be relayed wirelessly over many hops of the mesh network."

I disagree. There are three types of Mesh networks - one radio nodes, two radio nodes and multiple radio nodes. By calling them generations, it makes it seem as if this is an evolution. It's not been that way. They're simply have been tailored for different design goals. The meshes made with single radio nodes are low cost, but suffer of latency and throughput problems. Meshes made with multiple radio nodes don't have the latency problems and are suitable for multimedia applications. Please supply a reference for this. 65.161.188.11 01:33, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I totally disagree too with this kind of schematization of wireless mesh networks: please, provide scientific references for it. Manchoz 14:23, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Advertisement or not

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I don't think that current papges are two much included advertise information since it merely describes the state of the art technology. However, I recommend that many readers (wikipedian) participate to improve this pages more technically because the give technology is regarded as one of future technology. JSK 13:01, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

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Fdacosta 18:26, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References

They're not encyclopedic. Index pages for commercial sites aren't what we're looking for in references. I've improved the ref syntax anyways, but these should be refined. E_dog95 Hi 07:44, 24 February 2008 (UTC)