Frottle (Freenet throttle) is a project to control
traffic on wireless networks. Such control
eliminates the common hidden-node effect even on
large scale wireless networks. It is currently
only available for Linux wireless ateways using
iptables firewalls, with plans to develop a
Windows client in the future. It works by
scheduling the traffic of each client, using a
master node to coordinate actions. This eliminates
collisions and prevents clients with stronger
signals from receiving bandwidth bias. It has been
developed and tested on the large community
wireless network of WaFreeNet, and has been found
to give a significant improvment in the network
usability.
