On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:06 AM, David Barrett <dbarr...@quinthar.com> wrote: > It occurs to me that you could probably do most of this, today, using > Bluetooth. Indeed, does anybody know anything about the various > Bluetooth mesh networks / scatternets I see on Google?
There are some experiments or academic test like piconetwork. There was one call NAN : Near-me area network but I don't know any public implementation. Piconet was something foreseen for Bluetooth but I don't know if there is current any use of it. In the same spirit (relying on any local IP networks), I prototyped Forban to share files in an opportunist way on temporary networks or mobile networks. The protocol is really simple : relying on HTTP for everything except the announce part in broadcast (in IPv4) and in multicast (in IPv6). http://www.foo.be/forban/ https://github.com/adulau/Forban I looked at the early beginning at Bluetooth but the most common network, where everyone is connected to, is more wireless local area networks using IP even recent phone are using plain standard IP over 802.11. If you have any ideas, let me know. Kind regards, -- -- Alexandre Dulaunoy (adulau) -- http://www.foo.be/ -- http://www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Diary -- "Knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance -- that we can solve them" Isaac Asimov _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
