Hi all, I've been thinking about rate control a bit lately. I've written up some of my thoughts in a blog post (http://www.openias.org/bayesian-wifi-rate-control), but very briefly put I'd like to build a rate control algorithm based on Bayesian statistical inference, possibly by modeling the rate control problem as a "multi-armed bandit" problem and/or using Thompson sampling. A couple of questions for the list: 1. Is there anybody else out there thinking along similar lines? I'd very much like to find collaborators interested in working on this. It could serve as a pretty nice masters thesis problem, for example. 2. What would be the best hardware/software stack to base this work on? I'm thinking the best driver for rate control experimentation would be ath9k, right? If so then a TP-Link TL-WA901ND router (apparently based on Qualcomm QCA956x SOC) with OpenWrt, and a TP-Link TL-WDN4800 PCIe card (apparently based on Atheros AR9380 with PCI ID 168c:0030) for my desktop sounds like a good combo, no? But would I have to run a custom kernel on my desktop then (or can I somehow get by with an Ubuntu standard kernel)? Any other thoughts or pointers are also more than welcome. Many thanks, Björn Smedman
