I am trying to accommodate the following situation and am looking for guidance on whether the topology I am envisioning is possible, what are its implications and what else I should be thinking about. I am new to networking and, thus, have a lot of confusion/questions.
I have n wireless devices positioned around a room. I want another wireless device d1 to be able to form a network with these n devices such that d1 has a direct route to each other device. Basically this is a star graph with d1 at the center. Is this possible? I want a packet from d1 to r1 to not need to route through some intermediary node. I know they can form an ad hoc network, but then I have no guarantees about direct routes.
My real problem is that I want to have an arbitrary number of d's {d1..dn} where each di is the center of its own star graph with each r1..rn.
If all of these devices are in a network together, can I send ethernet/Wi-Fi frames directly to MAC addresses?