5th OLSR Interop / Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 2009
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Welcome!

The 5th OLSR Interop / Workshop in Vienna, Austria, follows similar events in (in order) San Diego, Paris, Tokyo/Niigata and Ottawa (Canada), in keeping with rotating between North America, Europe and Asia.

Vienna came about as that city is home to Funkfeuer.at -- a community network based on their own implementation of OLSR and spanning the entire city. A rather impressive and diverse community is building, supporting and using this network in daily operation.

As Funkfeuer.at offered to host the 2009 Interop/Workshop, we jumped at the chance of having this event in one of the most historic and beautiful cities in Europe (not to mention, the one with the undoubtably best pastries ;) ).

It is therefore very exciting to once again get practitioners, implementers and practical academics (pracademics?) together, to discuss their experiences with OLSR and test their respective implementations of OLSR for interoperability with one another.

Since the last Interop/Workshop, standardization of OLSRv2 and its constituent parts has progressed rapidly. Jitter considerations, PacketBB and TimeTLV have all been published (as [RFC5148], [RFC5444] and [RFC5497], respectively), and NHDP is lining up to move forward in the coming weeks with OLSRv2 to follow shortly. As such, an INTEROP is just what we need: to verify if there're any outstanding bugs, if the specifications are clear and concise.

However the OLSR community is vivid, and while OLSRv2 is shaping up to be soon completed, other exciting topics are opening up: security-extensions, for example, or very-large-scale networks. Or cross-layering to help OLSRv2 to squeeze maximum performance out of the network. This not to mention management-issues when deploying OLSRv2 networks -- the list continues. And so, as in the previous events, we'll also hold a WORKshop, where the focus will be discussing all these exciting topics in great detail.

We'll start off with an 1-day workshop on October 2, and will follow with 2 days of interoperability testing on October 3-4.

Thomas Clausen and Aaron Kaplan

Sponsors
Ecole PolytechniqueLIX - Ecole Polytechnique INRIA Funkfeyer.at