Althea

Althea

Transforming Connectivity

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Net Neutrality

Althea in rural Oregon

This article is about a network started by Deborah Simpier, who has been working on incentivized mesh for years, but joined the Althea team a couple months ago. She started this network before joining our team, and was actually Althea’s first user.

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Ipfs

“New Internets” on Althea

Althea is a network that will provide last-mile internet access with an incentivized mesh network where long-range wifi transmitters pay…

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Net Neutrality

Althea and net neutrality

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the FCC’s efforts to get rid of net neutrality. I’d like to take a little bit of time to talk…

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Comparison of Althea and RightMesh

Althea has made many careful design decisions to optimize performance and reduce overhead. In this post we compare Althea to a different incentivized mesh architecture and show how each of these choices impacts the final product.

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Live demo video

We’ve been hard at work getting our hardware demo polished. It consists of 10 Raspberry Pi’s, running our extension to the Babel routing protocol that lets it route according to price as well as quality.

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Althea's multihop payment channels

Althea's payment channels are key to how it works, but they are also one of the simpler parts to implement and explain. Payment channels allow payments to be made with a minimum of overhead. In the simple case, a payment can be made between two neighbors in the network with only one packet.

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Battlemesh talk

Just realized that I forgot to post my talk from Battlemesh. Here it is:

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Development Roadmap

We are developing Althea incrementally over several stages. The first couple stages are not anywhere near the full capabilities that Althea will have. They are not even mesh networks. However, developing software in an incremental manner lets us test and prove out various elements of the system cont

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Battlemesh

Last week I went to Battlemesh in Vienna. Battlemesh is a conference and competition that is held in a different location in Europe about once a year. Its original purpose is to test all the routing protocols against each other, hence \battle\. It's evolved into a great meeting of community network

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Pay for forward v.s. pay for internet

We've considered two main mechanisms for an incentivized mesh network so far. Pay for forward is the mechanism laid out in Althea v1, and Hocnet. Pay for internet is something I've been working on as Althea v2 and it is also kind of how ISPs work now. This is a brief summary of both approaches.

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Scrooge development: Running code

I've been focusing my efforts on Scrooge, a piece of software that will implement the tunnel-based traffic control scheme I've written about previously.

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Route quality metric verification

Any kind of incentivized mesh scheme needs a secure routing protocol. Without this, any node can claim anything it wants about the quality of routes that it has to a destination. Depending on how the payments work, there are a variety of different ways that this kind of routing protocol cheating can

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Dev Update 2: Shell Scripts

I've been experimenting in CORE with some shell scripts to allow nodes to prioritize traffic to and from their peers.

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