[Data & Calls] over [Wifi & Mesh network]

[Shawn Rutledge]

On 9/12/07, Francesco Pistillo <pistillofrancesco at gmail.com> wrote:
> "............When a phone is switched on, it begins to look for other
> phones within range. If it finds them, it starts to connect and extend
> the radio network......."
> ".......When a number is dialled a handset checks to see if the person
> being called is within range. If they are, the call goes through....."

If you want to do that over WiFi, maybe investigate how to implement
802.11s.  It specifies a routing protocol to maintain a mesh network.
It has been used on the OLPC (one laptop per child) project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11s