BattleMeshV3.1416, 3-4-5 September, Ghent (Belgium)

The Wireless Battle Mesh version 3.1416 aims to test a network of 30 isolated routers with different routing protocols (mainly OSLR, Babel, BATMAN), in an urban environnement (noise, cars, and concrete).

When?

Friday 3, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September 2010 (from 9am to 20pm)

Where?

In Ghent, at the Ghent hackerspace, 0x20 (aka whitespace)

• Address: Blekerijstraat 75, Ghent, Belgium

• Location: See the location page

Who?

Responsible organisator: Benjamin Henrion (zoobab), bh@udev.org, +32-484-566109

Attendees

1. Benjamin Henrion (zoobab)
2. pieter heremans (ptr_here)

3. Nicolas Thill ({Nico}) (OpenWRT developer)

4. Thierry Watelet
5. Philippe De Wolf
6. Ivo Vachkov

Registration

Please register with an email to bh@udev.org with:

1. name, surname, and nickname
2. address and country
3. date of arrival and departure
4. mean of transportation

as soon as possible so that the organisators can plan the logistics (space, rooms, food, transport, etc...).

Fee

A fee of 15EUR for the 3 days at the entrance, to cover the costs of Internet connectivity, electricity, etc...

Hosting

We'll provide a roof; please foresee your proper sleepingbag & matrass, or mail pieter@L45.be (ptr_here) for specific requests.

Agenda

• Test babelz over dual radio configuration

• Making packages for OpenWRT

Transport

See how to reach HSB by public transport.

Goal

• Install a mesh testbed of 30 nodes (fonera based) (zoobab owns 10 of them)
• Benefit from the experience acquired during previous battles

Beer

We'll stack some Orval & a selection of other Belgian beers.

Links

• HackerSpaceBrussels

• hackerspace Ghent

• wireless battle mesh main website

Todo

• Flash the 10 foneras with the latest OpenWRT Backfire
• Compile and prepare an ipk package for Babeld-z
• Test the maximal distance between 2 foneras at txpower=1dbm and bitrate=1mbps
• Test the fonera on batteries

Common pad

i copied the etherpad here BattleMeshV3.1416/Notes please updated the wiki instead of the live pad. (ref. ietherpad, ZpoRvBUjFl)

the road to gent dampoort station

(10min walk)

goog'maps link

Pictures

• http://img153.imageshack.us/g/img1419d.jpg/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoobab/sets/72157624900085150/

Videos

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JsVI62h1Ng&hd=1

Subpages

subpages are listed here: