[Freedombox-discuss] Allied Efforts.

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

Hello,

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:51 PM, DaveM <dave at posteo.de> wrote:
>
> On 10/20/2011 07:04 AM, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Timur Mehrvarz
>> <timur.mehrvarz at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On 20.10.2011 02:59, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote:
>>>> We are also actively engaging in the IEEE 802.11 standards process to
>>>> get ad-hoc fixed (ask me if you need information about the problems
>>>> with using ad-hoc WiFi to form mesh networks)
>>>
>>> Are these radio related issues or are API's missing? Can you elaborate?
>>
>> Android (even IcecreamCake) lacks APIs to access ad-hoc WiFi.
>> As a result, we need root access, and then we need to figure out how
>> to control the wifi chipset and associated drivers on any given model
>> of cell phone.  We have a paper coming out later in the year that
>> describes some of the foo we have had to do to generalise this process
>> as far as possible.
>
> Hello.
>
> Here are some new 'IcecreamCake' specific API's:
>
> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/p2p/package-summary.html
>
> http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/WiFiDirectDemo/index.html
>
> "Android now supports Wi-Fi Direct for peer-to-peer (P2P) connections
> between Android-powered devices and other device types without a hotspot
> or Internet connection. The Android framework provides a set of Wi-Fi
> P2P APIs that allow you to discover and connect to other devices when
> each device supports Wi-Fi Direct..."
>
> Sounds useful, doesn't it?

It sounds useful, and may well be in some instances, however WiFi
Direct is only for 1-to-1 communication.  It does not allow the
formation of a multi-hop mesh.

Paul.