Pretty cool stuff and if you have some time, have a read

Basically between our use (The Mesh) of the dynamic routing protocol OLSR or Optimized Link State Routing protocol babel is extremely robust in the presence of mobility: only under very exceptional situations circumstances will Babel cause a transient routing loop. (This is unlike OLSR, which will cause transient routing loops just after a mobility event before the new topology information is flooded throughout the network.)

I’ve always like using the method “Prevention is better than the cure” and the name Babel seems appropriate?

If you do not know:  OLSR is an IP routing protocol which is optimized for mobile ad-hoc networks but can also be used on other wireless ad-hoc networks. OLSR is a proactive link-state routing protocol which uses Hello and Topology Control (TC) messages to discover and then disseminate link state information throughout the mobile ad-hoc network. Individual nodes use this topology information to compute next hop destinations for all nodes in the network using shortest hop forwarding paths. – Wikipedia

Here are a couple of pointed links for your perusal:

http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/draft-chroboczek-babel-routing-protocol-01.html

http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/