Forward jitter

To avoid radio collisions due to synchronized forwarding, a jitter is introduced to the message forwarding. This is a random small time interval for which the message is to be cached in the node before forwarding it. When using forwarding-jitter, piggybacking of messages will often occur since multiple messages that are to be forwarded might arrive within the buffer period. When this happens, messages are stacked within the same OLSR packet.



Andreas 2004-07-29