B.A.T.M.A.N Protocol Concept (2011)

[shetaye]

Interesting, the protocol seems to assume symmetrical performance i.e. X-...->Y and Y-...->X will have the same latency so long as they follow the same path?

[ameliaquining]

Apparently it stands for "Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking".

[direwolf20]

All mesh routing protocols suffer from O(N^2) path data and traffic, collapsing at a few thousand nodes.

[cmrx64]

this isn’t a theorem of network science, and is an easily avoided failure mode. plumtree? kad? aodv? you’re wrong :(