Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Polling Enlightens WIreless neTworks - savannah.nongnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

I have approved your project.  You will receive an automated e-mail
containing detailled information about the approval.

The address of the FSF has changed, and is now:

  59 Temple Place, Suite 330
  Boston, MA  02111-1307
  USA

Please update your files before importing them into the CVS.

Regards,

Rudy

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:18:42AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
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> Yoshinori K. Okuji <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Polling Enlightens WIreless neTworks
> System name: pewit
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> This project is to solve the problem of "hidden stations" in outdoor wireless 
> networks. Such networks often have a problem, because statios with weaker 
> signals cannot send packets as long as stations with stronger signals keep 
> emitting packets. The overall efficiency becomes even worse, due to retry 
> packets.
> 
> To address the problem, it is necessary to avoid collisions of packets. So we 
> use a so-called polling method which has one master station and slave 
> stations. The master schedules slaves by sending a start packet to one of 
> them at a time. The slave then sends data and an end packet.
> 
> There are proprietary solutions, but we need a vendor-independent solution to 
> avoid hardware dependencies. So we started this project. It runs in user 
> space completely (at the moment) and can work with Linux 2.2 and later, using 
> TUN/TAP and packet sockets. We will publish the software under the term of 
> GPL.
> 
> For now, we haven't released the source code officially, but I've put a 
> tarball for you in this URL:
> http://www.enbug.org/pmpd-0.5.tar.gz
> The name is different from that of this project, but don't care: we are about 
> changing the name and we use the same source code.
> 
> Other Software Required:
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