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GradCor: a proposed routing method for Meshtastic — no hop limit, ~2× unicast delivery at a fraction of the airtime of managed flood, simulated on 6 real meshes
Hey, I wrote up a proposal for a new Meshtastic routing method: Gradient-Corridor Forwarding (GradCor).
No hop limit, no routing tables, no control traffic — each node keeps one byte of state per active destination. Depending on how well that knowledge is working, forwarding slides continuously between near-unicast cost and plain flood, so it degrades gracefully instead of failing.
In trace-driven simulation on six real mesh topologies (Norway + five more, built from production traceroutes) it delivered ~2× the unicast packets of managed flooding at ~3× less airtime per delivered packet. Simulation, not field results — caveats and reproduction code are all in the paper.
What do you think? Contributions and scrutiny are welcome.
u/clcikerinjo — 11 hours ago