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Re: [RFC] mac80211: reset connection poll on receiving unicast data frames

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On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 07:21:20PM +0530, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 19:14 +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> > In noisy channel conditions, some APs do not reply to probe
> > requests which results in STA disconnection. It is perfectly
> > fine to reset the connection polling if unicast frames are
> > received from that AP properly.
> 
> I'm not convinced. We often have no trouble hearing the AP but the AP
> isn't hearing us because sensitivity is different etc.
>
But it does affect data transmission. STA is continuously receiving
data from AP. So we can ensure that connection is still alive
based on unicast frame though STA is not hearing probe response.

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Rajkumar
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