[ros-users] Making message transport more modular?

[Damon Kohler]

FYI, this is something people were discussing at ROSCon and will
probably be covered as part of the nextgen ROS SIG:

http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Planning/RosNG

Damon

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Karan, Cem F CIV (US)
> <cem.f.karan.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
>> I'd definitely support this; I've been wanting to experiment with SCTP
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol) as a
>> transport layer, but had no idea how to get it working with ROS.  Having
>> some well-supported interface in ROS to tie in new transports would make
>> that MUCH easier!
>
> +1
>
> There is clearly widespread interest in a more modular transport
> layer. I suspect the tricky part will be clarifying implicit client
> assumptions about bandwidth, reliability, quality of service, etc.
> --
>  joq
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