[Babel-users] Restarting MeshPoint – seeking advice on routing for crisis/disaster scenarios

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> In my opinion the main issue with large scale mesh networks in the
> Media Access...

Agreed.

> The only way I see to make a large-scale (high hundred to low
> thousands of nodes) omnidirectional mesh work smoothly is to restrict
> it to a very limited set of applications that don't overload the whole
> mesh.

That's orthogonal to media access.  The community networks I had the
chance to look at back at the beginning of the century had serious issues
with bufferbloat and fairness -- a single well-positioned chatty node
could dramatically increase latency for everyone else.

I'm sure we could do much better nowadays, with all the experience we have
with fq-codel and CAKE.  (Miss you, Dave.)

-- Juliusz