Hello everyone.
I’m Gabriele Gemmi, you may remeber me for… Implementing Pop-Routing[1]
This is the second time I participate in GSoC and first of all I’d like to thanks the organization for giving me this opportunity.
Last year I implemented PR for OLSR2. The daemon, called Prince [2], is now available in the LEDE and the OpenWRT feeds.
What is Pop-Routing
PR is an algorithm that calculate the betwenness centrality [3] of every nodes of a network and then uses this values to calculate the optimal message timers for the routing protocol on each node. In this way a central node will send messages more frequently and an outer one less frequently.
At the end the overall overhead of the network doesn’t change, but the convergence gets faster.
Objectives
My project focuses on extending Prince functionalities to use Pop-Routing with OSPF. I decided to work with BIRD, since it’s written in C and it’s already available for OpenWRT/LEDE
In order to do this I need to develop 2 components:
— A plugin for BIRD that expose the OSPF topology in NetJSON and allows to update the timers
— A plugin for Prince that communicate with the BIRD plugin
I already started developing the former [4], and I’m looking forward to implement the latter.
I’ll keep reporting my updates here, so stay tuned if you wanna hear more.
Cheers, Gabriele
[1]: https://blog.freifunk.net/2016/05/23/implementing-poprouting/
[2]: https://github.com/AdvancedNetworkingSystems/poprouting/
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betweenness_centrality
[4]: https://github.com/AdvancedNetworkingSystems/bird