Bi-Weekly Update 1

Papers Reviewed:

In preparation for having to narrow down the topics and scope of the project that we are going to tackle, we read many different research papers. Because our idea is using a mesh network that will have users traffic present on many neighboring nodes, we think having encryption built-in is important, and that was echoed in paper [1]. Some different routing protocols were compared in this paper [2] and will be informative for us when we are investigating the different protocols. Another paper we looked at [3] compared the BATMAN and OLSR protocols with the approach that each node should be both a terminal and a router, allowing decentralized control where each node can manage itself. Lastly, paper [4] compares some open source solutions at the time the paper was written (2007) and proposed change to one of the mentioned open source solutions.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167739X17322409?via%3Dihub

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstractid=3355409

[3]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343164546

[4] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255584945

Open Source Projects Considered Quick Mesh Project: https://github.com/QuickMeshProject

batman-adv: https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki

HWMP: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c