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Freifunk - A module for OLSRv2 to throughput estimation of 2-hop wireless links
Hi to community members! In the phase 2 period, we set up an emulation environment in CORE, then we tested PRINCE with iperf client/server (https://github.com/pasquimp/prince/tree/iperf) in CORE. We built a simple three nodes topology (n1, n2, n3) wh...
Freifunk - GSoC 2018 – Kernel-space SOCKS proxy for Linux – July progress
What we have so far Last month I introduced my test setup intended for fast kernel trials and network development. After that updated my shadowsocks-libev fork for the latest 3.2.0 version which is the latest upstream stable version. This fork dont d...
Freifunk - GSoC 2018 – Ground Routing in LimeApp – 2nd update
Hello in this past month I was working on the validation of the configuration in both the front-end and backend. Basically it is to confirm that the minimum parameters to generate the basic configuration are selected and are of the corresponding type...
Freifunk - GSoC 2018 – Better map for nodewatcher (2nd update)
Hello everyone, I am very happy to say that since my last update I was able to implement most of the features that I have talked about and was able to test them with real data. In the last update I talked about how I started my own local leaflet map ...
Freifunk - LibreNet6 – update 2
This is an quick update on my work on LibreNet6 and LibreMesh within the last weeks. The exam period in Tokyo started and I had a cold which slowed me a bit down, once both passed I will focus with doubled concentration on the project again! Multiple...
Freifunk - nodewatcher: Build system rework and package upstreaming – Second update
Hi, Last weeks have been spent solely on reworking the build system. First, it was a matter of rebranding the current LEDE back into OpenWrt and fixing a couple of hard-coded names that would cause issues with OpenWrt name. It also involved dropping ...
Freifunk - GSoC 2018 – DAWN a decentralized WiFi controller (2st update)
Hi, I still try to get my patches upstream. For the libiwinfo patch I had to add the lua bindings. I never used lua so first I had to get comfortable with this. Additionally I wanted to add the channel utilization in the luci statistics app. But sudd...
Freifunk - VRConfig Update 2
Hi, I spent the last weeks mainly developing the LuCI Application for VRConfig. As soon as you want to do advanced things with LuCI, it gets cumbersome. As the API is mostly undocumented, you have to dig through the LuCI’s source code trying ou...
Freifunk - OpenWLANMap App: Update 2
Hi, In the last weeks I was working on the storing process as described in the architecture in the last blog post [0]. Storage Handler: Old app: the old app saves the data as byte in a file. A data entry is 28 bytes of MAC-address(12 bytes for 12 ch...
Freifunk - WiFi Direct and Bluetooth Meshing
As hinted in my last blog article, for us to really be able to move forward we needed to do some experimentation with the new technologies we have to adapt. The primary candidate in the beginning of that phase was WiFi Direct, a type of WiFi mode set...
