[WLANware] gsoc student presentation

[Edo Monticelli]

Hi,
my name is Edo Monticelli, I am a Master's student and I will apply for gsoc.
I have not been involved in this community before, but networking is my research
area and I hope I can learn quickly.

I attach my application (not yet submitted), any suggestion is welcome. I
proposed a project on BATMAN. Unfortunately I don't know very well BATMAN code,
but I hope this will be the occasion to know it better and to start an active
participation.

Edo Monticelli
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== Personal Information ==
Edo Monticelli
Birthdate

montik at autistici.org

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== Education ==
University of Trento - 
I am currently enrolled in the last year of the Master's in Computer Science

I am specializing in networking and distributed systems.
I have a programming experience in C among other languages, I use linux systems
since 8 years. I have a 2 years job experience as a python developer.
I contributed to peerstreamer (peerstreamer.org), as part of an academic
project.

== Project ==
An Improved B.A.T.M.A.N. Broadcast Protocol

I can work on the project part-time (25-30 hours per week) from now until the
beginning of June, then full time (40-50 hours per week). 

I can try to understand with the mentor and the batman community which one of the two
proposed approaches (dynamic rebroadcasting/MPR-like solution) will work better
and define the details of the protocol before implementing it. 
I will provide a detailed test descriptions and results, along with the
code documentation.
I have great interest in understanding BATMAN internals and in continuing
to work with the community. I am taking into consideration
to include BATMAN in my master's thesis which I am going to start working on after gsoc.