The "out-of-box" capabilities of 802.11 Ad-Hoc networking allows data to be sent and received only within the station's immediate range. It does not, however, relay packets further on. The software developed here fills exactly this gap, providing an intermediate network layer between the WiFi network adapter and the upper protocols, allowing the protocols to communicate with any station in the network, not only with the immediate neighbors. This project aims at creating a Mesh WiFi network layer for the end user computers, thus making the network infrastructure be implicitly maintained by the users themselves. Unlike other solutions that allow mesh topology only between access points, this software brings it directly to client nodes. Given that it's based on WiFi's AdHoc mode of operation, users don't need any sort of access points at all in order to build their network!
See also: daihinia, relay, mesh, wifi, wi-fi, ad-hoc
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