Open Source Ad-Hoc Network and Routing Protocols and Platforms
= A list of open source ad-hoc network and routing protocols / platforms: Providing local information during an “internet kill switch”.
Maintained by http://openmesh.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/a-list-of-open-source-ad-hoc-network-and-routing-protocolsplatforms/
Directory
B.A.T.M.A.N – http://www.open-mesh.org/
Roofnet | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roofnet
GNUnet | https://gnunet.org/
Netsukuku | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsukuku
Open Mesh Project | http://www.openmeshproject.org/
OLPC Mesh Network | http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mesh_Network_Details
Open source BGP | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol
Digitatas | https://sites.google.com/a/opensailing.net/digitata/
sMesh | http://www.smesh.org/
Coova | http://coova.org/
Babel | http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/
SolarMESH | http://owl.eng.mcmaster.ca/~todd/SolarMESH/
WINGproject | http://www.wing-project.org/
Wiki list of mesh protocols: Wikimedia list of ad-hoc mesh protocols and packet routing
Even bigger list of ad-hoc routing protocols: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc_routing_protocol_list
Commercial projects:
Meraki ( google funded) | http://meraki.com/
Firetide | http://www.firetide.com/
Basic explanation – how this stuff works:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network
Example of a working grassroots wireless community, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Wireless_Metropolitan_Network