Advantages
Assuming that some nodes in the network have enough memory to know of all nodes in the network, there is no practical limitation to network size.
Since the control bandwidth is defined to be less than 5% regardless of network size, the amount of control bandwidth required is not supposed to increase as network size grows.
The system can use nodes with small amounts of memory.
The network has a reliable, low-overhead way to establish that a node is not in the network. This is a difficult, valuable property in ad-hoc mesh networks.
Most routing protocols scale either by reducing proactive link-state routing information or reactively driving routing by connection requests. OORP mixes the proactive and reactive methods. Properly configured, an OORP net can scale to 100,000's of nodes and can often achieve reasonable performance even though it limits routing bandwidth to 5%.
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