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Yoshinori K. Okuji <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: Polling Enlightens WIreless neTworks
System name: pewit
Type: non-GNU

Description:
This project is to solve the problem of "hidden stations" in outdoor wireless 
networks. Such networks often have a problem, because statios with weaker 
signals cannot send packets as long as stations with stronger signals keep 
emitting packets. The overall efficiency becomes even worse, due to retry 
packets.

To address the problem, it is necessary to avoid collisions of packets. So we 
use a so-called polling method which has one master station and slave stations. 
The master schedules slaves by sending a start packet to one of them at a time. 
The slave then sends data and an end packet.

There are proprietary solutions, but we need a vendor-independent solution to 
avoid hardware dependencies. So we started this project. It runs in user space 
completely (at the moment) and can work with Linux 2.2 and later, using TUN/TAP 
and packet sockets. We will publish the software under the term of GPL.

For now, we haven't released the source code officially, but I've put a tarball 
for you in this URL:
http://www.enbug.org/pmpd-0.5.tar.gz
The name is different from that of this project, but don't care: we are about 
changing the name and we use the same source code.

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