The long-in-the-process RFC 8116 finally hit the repositories last Friday. The abstract of this document goes: This document analyzes common security threats to the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2 (OLSRv2) and describes their potential impacts on Mobile Ad…
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OLSR. Who knew it was not “Optimized Link-Stare Routing” but “Optical Liquid Silicone Rubber”?
The Internet Engineering Task Force (the IETF) proclaims to embrace an open (standards) process. Specifically, RFC2026 – one of the “founding texts” of IETF procedure and functioning states that (section 1.2, emphasis mine): o These procedures are intended to provide…
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The IETF NomCom has just announced its appointments to the various leadership positions within the IETF. The announcement is here.I am especially thrilled to see Alissa Cooper from Cisco having been appointed as IETF Chair. As far as I remember,…
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Introduction The Lightweight On-demand Ad hoc Distance-vector Routing Protocol – Next Generation (LOADng) is a routing protocol, derived from AODV and extended for use in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) and Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLNs). The LOADng control messages are carried…
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There are few things as fun as “breaking stuff”. Of course, not in the “temper-tantrum throwing toys around” way of an over-stimulated 4-years-old with a sugar-high from trick-or-treat Halloween-candy (belated happy Halloween btw., to those on the other side of…
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L’Usine Nouvelle nicely summarizes the SOGRID project, in which Ecole Polytechnique has been an enthusiastic partner. In summary, the pilot of the SmartGrid of tomorrow, which the ADEME SOGRID produced, includes 1000 households, 35 km of electricity grid, 300 “grid…
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The SOGRID SmartGrid project, in which my research group at Ecole Polytechnique has been a partner, is – after three exciting years of hard, gratifying, and at times frustrating, work (as “working with the real world” sometimes can be) – coming…
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With the recent publication of RFC7939, I wrote in a previous blog entry that: This is, to some extend, the final piece of the core OLSRv2 (the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2) puzzle – which is also therefore the…
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RFC7939 has just recently been approved: and published. This is, to some extend, the final piece of the core OLSRv2 (the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2) puzzle – which is also therefore the final piece of a 10+ years adventure of…
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