Notes from Wireless Routing and Multi-Hop Architectures at ETCON

Here are my notes from Christian Dubiel's talk on Wireless Routing and Multi-Hop Architectures at ETCON:

This is a wireless Internet, but subject to dynamic environment, interference,
multipath fade, limited bandwidth

Scaling challenges, throughput degredation across multiple hops (indroduced by
interference and cumulative packet areas), and wireless links are not friendly
to TCP/IP's coping strategies.

In a wired network, slow connections are usually congestion, which leads to
back-off. In a wireless net, slow connections are caused by interference.
Backing off on an interfered link won't clear the congestion, 'cause there's
nothing to clear.

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