The research, development, and launch of permissionless mesh networks:

1. Wireless ad hoc networks (WANETs) and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs)


2. Benefits, risks, and tradeoffs of mesh networking


3. Delay-disruption tolerant networking (DTN)


4. Empirical mesh networks in military, community, and commercial use (NYC's Red Hook wifi, SMesh, Spain's Guifi, and Amazon Sidewalk)


5. Can a fully decentralized, peer-to-peer mesh network replace incumbent ISP-intermediated internet connectivity?


6. Challenges to proliferation and adoption


7. How to setup your own small-scale mesh network

See also:🧵https://x.com/AnthPB/status/1308104246655619073?t=WC4ViVWa8v_OJ6aXSFA94w&s=19

This podcast is AI-generated with NotebookLM, using the following sources, research, and analysis:

• A New Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks (Zanjireh/Shahrabi/Larijani, 2013)


• A Survey on Trust Management for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (Cho/Swami, 2011.12)


• AODV Implementation Design and Performance Evaluation (Chakeres/Belding-Ryer)


• An Overview of Wireless Mesh Networks (Parvin, 2019.06)


• An overview of mobile ad hoc networks: Applications and challenges (Hoebeke/Moerman/Dhoedt/Demeester, 2004.07)


• Applications, Advantages and Challenges of Ad Hoc Networks (JAIR, Helen/Arivazhagan, 2014.01.08)


• DTC Mesh Radios Integrated onto U.S. Army Tactical Network (UST, 2020.08.31)


• DTC Offers Enhanced MANET Mesh Networkings (SoldierMod, 2018)


• Delay- and Disruption-Tolerant Networks (DTNs): A Tutorial (NASA, 2015.09.14)


• Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking Overview (NASA, 2023.09.20)


• Everything I could find out about Amazon's Sidewalk Network (Stacey on IoT, 2022.09.16)


• Experimenting with an Ad Hoc Wireless Network on Campus: Insights & Experiences", ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (Toh/Chen/et al, 2001)


• Functions and structure of a packet radio station (Tomlinson/Beeler/Burchfiel, 1975)


• Future Research Challenges for Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks (IEEE, Toh, 2002)


• How Wi-Fi mesh networks work (Android Central, 2018)


• Is it possible to use the internet without any sort of isp, like if you could build your own router without authentication from an isp or even faking the authentication of a real isp. I suppose anything is “possible” but could it realistically be done? (Reddit, 2022.12)


• Long-lived Ad Hoc Routing based on the Concept of Associativity (Toh, 1999)


• Mesh Networks (Cardullo/Roio, 2019.02)


• Mobility Increases the Capacity of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks (Grossglauser/Tse, 2002)


• Protocols and Applications of Ad-hoc Robot Wireless Communication Networks: An Overview (Jaisal, 2011.12)


• Spatial Node Distribution of the Random Waypoint Mobility Model with Applications (Hyytia/Lassila/Virtamo, 2006)


• The Resurrecting Duckling: Security Issues for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks (Stajano/Anderson, 1999)


• The SMesh Wireless Mesh Network (Amir/et al, 2010)


• Three Ways Mesh Networks with Peer-to-Peer Connections Can Revolutionize Communications without the Internet (Brookings Institution, 2014.04.25)


• Want To Guarantee Net Neutrality? Join Peer-To-Peer, Community-Run Internet (Fast Company, 2017.12.19)


• Wireless Mesh Networks in IoT Networks (Liu/Tong/Qiu/Liu, 2017.05)


• Wireless ad hoc network (Wikipedia, 2024.11.01)


• Wireless community network (Wikipedia, 2024.11.03)


• Wireless mesh network (Wikipedia, 2024.11.01)

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