On 03/28/2019 08:05 PM, Dennis Bland wrote:
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 1:03 PM Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 3/21/19 11:50 AM, Dennis Bland wrote:
Hi Ben:
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 12:00 PM Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 3/13/19 6:51 PM, Dennis Bland wrote:
Hi Ben:
You need one STA and at least two APs (preferably on two different
channels) to make 802.11k/v test cases. This is because Neighbor
Reports are not very useful with only one AP (the connected AP), and
802.11v Transition Management requires at least two APs for non-MBO
operation.
While hostapd and wpa_supplicant contain most of the protocol-level
functionality to send and parse the required elements in 802.11
management frames to support 802.11k/v, the logic implementation is
not complete. For example, an AP central controller will send Beacon
Report requests to a STA through different APs, then analyze the
results to consider sending an 802.11v Transition Management request
to the STA.
Hello,
I started working on the beacon report request. It appears that APs
cannot send to a station that is not connected to it. So, in that case,
the controller cannod do what you suggest above.
Is this a limitation in hostapd or did I mis-understand what you are suggesting?
I *am* able to send beacon requests to a STA from the AP (hostapd) to which it
is connected.
Yes, you are correct - sorry for being unclear. The AP can only send
beacon report requests to a currently connected STA. In my original
comment, I was thinking of a scenario with multiple APs and one or
more STAs connected to each AP. The AP controller would receive a
beacon report from each STA and determine if TPC or an 802.11v TM is
recommended for a particular STA.
It would be cool if you do request a beacon from any STA out there, but otherwise
it would seem you'd need to sniff on the AP(s) or something like that to know RSSI
of non-attached peers?
Actually, I just realized ANQP Neighbor Reports are defined in IEEE
802.11-2016, and are required for Wi-Fi Alliance WiFi Agile Multiband
certification.
This would be an STA sending ANQP to an AP though, right?
Either way, please post a patch if you code this up.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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