Mobile network design

[sir_ulrick]

Hi all,

Im working to develop a mobile network with the follow infrastructure

Hosts 3 and 4 will be static point (cabled points) but, hosts 5,6 and 7 must be mobiles (satellite connections). Would be necessary to create an ad-hoc network with this topology really ussing OSPF-MDR, OSPF-MPR or OLSR in all topology or it's possible using normal OSPF witouth produce problem in the network?

Thanks in advance

[Flavio Miranda]

Hi

 Quite an unusual subject but interesting as well. 

"OSPF does not have a suitable interface type for
a wireless broadcast environment which is characterized by
a multicast-capable transmission medium and where routers
do not necessarily form a full mesh. Moreover, to adapt to
the unpredictable behavior of mobile nodes, OSPF will have
to increase the amount of topology dissemination messages,
leading to a prohibitively high routing overhead when adopted
in MANETs. Consequently, OSPF does not scale well even
for a quite small MANET"

 So no, you can´t use pure OSPF. 

More over, here an interesting discussion about OSPF-MDR and OLSR comparison. Hope this can help.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228961828_Comparison_studies_of_OSPF-MDR_OLSR_and_composite_routing 

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[sir_ulrick]

Hi Flavio, 

thanks a lot for your help. Your link has been very interesting. But unfortunately I couldn't find any related OLSR protocol in Cisco. Could you confirm me that if it's possible to use?

Thanks in advance.