[RLUG] So... what's up?

[Sebastian Smith]

Hey,

There haven't been many posts in the last couple of months, so I figured 
I'd try starting a thread.

What's everyone up to?

I'm taking two classes, researching robots, and, of course, consulting on 
the side.  I don't really have any interesting anecdotes to share from any 
of these.  Well... I did recently decided to change my research track a 
bit.  I'm now focusing on the design of a partial protocol stack for 
mobile wireless networks.  I'm using the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector 
routing algorithm to create a multi-hop wireless mesh out of single-hop 
ad-hoc wireless networks.  I'm then integrating the publish/subscribe 
communication paradigm on top of UDP to run on the mesh.  The point of 
this complicated mess to provide the robots with a more robust 
communication medium.  With single-hop networks, if a host cannot directly 
contact the target host it can no longer communicate.  With multi-hop, a 
host can route messages through other hosts to the target.

Anyway,  that's my "ping".

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