لا آلهة ، لا سادةOTOH, opportunistic UHF transmissions could be really useful for replicating messages over long distances. sneakenet still applies ofc, but there are legit uses for high-speed wireless mesh.
Ignas Kiela@xjix I want to experiment on building a low-bandwidth mesh based on LoRa for a low latency simple messaging within a city, or a village with well placed nodes.
@ignaloidas yeah me too! have you looked at NDN? i think the information-centric nature is an important aspect for making reliable MANet systems. (i may be repeating myself)
@xjix Haven't looked an NDN yet, very interesting, thanks! I myself was looking on how to take on the privacy angle with encryption and routing.
@xjix NDN looks cool, but not quite fit for what I'm looking to build. LoRa has very low available bandwidth, with speeds more similar to modems than modern broadband internet, which makes it a lot more fit for simple communication (text, audio with good compression and signal) than to content delivery, on which NDN seems to be more focused on.
@ignaloidas the key tajeaway for me is that routing is not point to point in NDN. as such, you can take advantage of the natrual broadcast capabilities of wireless transmission systems. something to think about anyway.
@xjix Yeah, that's a good point, and would be a very good thing for more content-oriented networks. Yet in communications usualy is unicast or manycast, and very rarely something is broadcast or anycast.
@ignaloidas maybe you're right. nobody has made a good mobile adhoc mesh yet so there's still plenty to learn here.
@xjix Yeah. I think NDN would be more appropriate for a speedy mesh network, based on something faster than LoRa, like WiFi. But it's gonna be a lot harder to build such a network from both technical point of view, since WiFi already has a lot of specialization into non-mesh structures, and in infrastructure point of view, since WiFi trades range for speed, which is the opposite of LoRa and requires a lot more community buy-in.