BattleMeshV5

We would like to give to the 'Battle of the Mesh' the flavor of a tournament with a social character. If you are a mesh networking enthusiast, community networking activist, or have an interest in mesh networks you might find this bunch of crazy folks gathering for the Wireless Battle of the Mesh V5 very interesting. This event is also an opportunity to meet developers from the most popular open source mesh protocol implementations (Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N. L3 and L2, BMX, OLSR) and watch their ideas compete. If you have implemented an interesting mesh protocol capable of running on OpenWrt Kamikaze you can take part in the tournament too.

Where

The BattleMeshV5 will be held at Athens, Greece. Since the event will take place in the center of Athens we booked a hotel for the first ~60 participants that confirm their participation. The testing / hacking / talks will take place in the nearby university (name ?). A / several room/rooms (size?) has been reserved for the BattleMesh participants. Expect to find an internet connection, plenty of space, video projector and a cafeteria(?) and some curious students (?) there.

The hotel is within walking distance from the university: Map (Point A is the hotel, Point B is the university)

Hotel

Hotel Orion-Dryades, 105 Emanouil Mpenaki Dryadon Street

How to get to the hotel / university from the Athens airport

• Subway: Take the Subway (blue line - there is only one line) form the airport to the Monastiraki station, from there take the train to Omonia station (green line, direction to Kifisia) and follow this map.

• Bus: Take the X95 Bus to Sintagma square, change to the subway and take the red line direction to Ag. Antonios to Omonia station and follow this map

• Taxi: There are plenty of taxis at the airport. The journey to the center of Athens will cost you around 35 EUR during daytime (from 5am to midnight) or 50 EUR during nighttime (from midnight to 5am).

When

26 of March - 1st of April 2012

The space is reserved for the whole week so people will start gathering during the previous weekend. So if time is not a problem, we recommend you to travel some days ahead.

What

In brief: we will deploy a wireless mesh network over the neighborhood, run different routing protocols on top of it, perform some tests and see which routing protocol behaves better.

Side activities will be organized. Workshops and talks on wireless topics are on the time table:

Announcement: TBD

Call for Paper: TBD

Agenda: TBD

Fee

TBD

Contact

• Organization: AboutUs

• IRC: irc.freenode.net #battlemesh (webchat)

• Mailing-list: http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/battlemesh

What to bring

• Access Points
• Ethernet Cables
• switches and hubs
• your laptop
• your sleeping bag and a small mattress if it is not problem for you

List of the hardware available for the WBMv5

TBD