On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 04:10:10PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On 6/8/07, Jouni Malinen <jkm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >One related issue is the requirement for not transmitting continuously > >for longer than a quite short time period before sensing the medium > >again (this is from Japan). > Wow, aren't those regulatory requirements breaking the spec? I wonder > if loading a different rate algorithm depending on regdomain would do > the job in a case like this. What do you mean by breaking the spec? Local regulations come first and whatever is to be used to transmit better comply with those no matter what the IEEE 802.11 standard says. Just using a different rate algorithm may not be enough to handle this kind of cases. There needs to be a way to enforce some rules like the maximum continuous transmission at a lower layer and somehow adjust the parameters if needed. This particular rule may not be too much of an issue for now since it came up in a case where non-standard TX rate were used (i.e., something below the minimum used in 802.11a). Anyway, we should try to be able to handle whatever rules comes up now or in the future. Of course, one way of handling limitations is not to allow transmissions at all, but that may not always be the ideal solution. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
