Talk:List of ad hoc routing protocols

message: Hi.  I think this article would be a lot more useful if it indicated a little more about level of applicability per protocol.  Specifically, I think it should be ranked with the STD-level protocols first, and then the RFC-level protocols, and then the commonly-used-but-not-formally-standardized ones and the research-interest-only should be last.  Alternatively, or, in addition, links to articles or home pages of specific implementations, open source and proprietary, should be added.  --Treekids 21:42, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usefulness 

message: Folks, please organize your comments a bit better. --Treekids 21:38, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misc Junk 

message: I think that this statement is a bit misleading. It ignores the fact that the intermediete node is using power to receive and process the the packet.  Also in the general case, the intermediate node not optimally positioned (i.e. it is not on a line directly between the sender and reciever, making the actual path longer.)  The real advantage of a mesh network is that it lets you connect to nodes that you can't reach dirctly.
:Energy required to transmit a signal is proportional to the square of the distance. Transmitting a signal half the distance requires one fourth of the energy and if there is a node in the middle willing spend another fourth of its energy for the second half, data would be transmitted for half of the energy than through a direct transmission. This however introduces a delay.
Also, the ISAIAH link links to a biblical figure, not a networking article.  I see this type of extranious link a lot, is this considered a problem?
::I don't understand that statement (among the comments above) following "if there is a node in the middle", especially how "willing" fits into the sentence.  Perhaps you mean to say that introducing a node in the middle of a long transmission line would reduce the total transmission line power losses by one half.  Is that right?  Is it an accurate calculation? Unfree (talk) 23:58, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Power aware

message: I suppose if we want to talk about the energy cost of message transmission we could be a bit more precise then what is currently proposed. I added the obvious attenuation factor. We could also say something about the cost of receiveing packets. We could use a sligthly more general model. Maybe the RF attenuation model proposed in the "Wireless Sensor Networks" book from Zhao and Guibas? (We would also have a reference... :-)) Regards, --Powo 22:32, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I like it the way it is.  Freeform is better at this stage of the game, and tables take too much scrolling, typically.Kbk (talk) 00:13, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Power aware protocol

message: Shouldn't B.A.T.M.A.N be mentioned somewhere here? --Dittaeva (talk) 14:49, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  R.O.B.I.N 

message: I find the paragraphs under "power-aware" confusing at present. Unfree (talk) 23:40, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Confusing

message: Wouldn't it better to reformat the contents of article in the form of tables. I suppose, it'd be better for understanding and eliminating of useless info. Pavel Modilaynen (talk) 21:47, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I like it the way it is.  Freeform is better at this stage of the game, and tables take too much scrolling, typically.Kbk (talk) 00:13, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Table

message: Is it should be some where here? And how about WiFi-based section? --Nashev (talk) 18:12, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  OpenMesh, Cybiko and WiPeer 

message: I added the * for the following line, but it may be that this protocol does not exist or is not described properly. What is "ariadne"?  Ariadne (sofware) does not seem likely to me.  
* Endaira:  It is on demand source routing protocol and it is designed to address the hidden channel attack in ariadne.--DThomsen8 (talk) 23:58, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is Endaira? What is ariadne?