On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 02:10:55PM -0700, Derek Smithies wrote: > Hi, > On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Bruno Randolf wrote: > > This is ANI for ath5k. > Fantastic!! > I have used your initial ani patch set here, and it did help througput > etc. > > > > - Improve beacon averaging algorithm for IBSS: Maybe we should keep track of > > the average RSSI on a per-node basis and use the minimum of those in order > > not to loose far away nodes? The other option would be to limit the > > parameters we control similar to AP mode. > > We have talked about this before. I thought that we agreed > that adhoc nodes may > a)be activated at any time > b)be positioned at an unknown distance apart > > it therefore makes no sense to average the RSSI over the current nodes. > If all the current nodes in the network are close by, the ani algorithm > will wind the sensitivity down. Consequently, if a remote node is > started, it will not be able to connect. Yet, the remote node should > have been able to connect as the slot times etc were long enough, > and the link budget is fine... > > So yes, the only way to > > - Improve beacon averaging algorithm for IBSS: > is to turn ani off. which means the issue you raised else where of > providing reasonable userland controls (not via debugfs) becomes > important. If ANI helps IBSS so much then why not just default to turning it off within the driver? Luis -- 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
