Return-path: Received: from web51405.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.38.184]:20623 "HELO web51405.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755570AbZJLJfa convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:35:30 -0400 Message-ID: <487238.22616.qm@web51405.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:28:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Joerg Pommnitz Subject: 802.11: Throughput optimization beyond rate selection To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello all, the throughput achieved over a wireless 802.11 network depends on more than the rate selection. Other parameters are fragmentation threshold, RTS threshold and the retry limits. Are you aware of a "unified throughput optimization" algorithm that tries to optimize the whole parameter set instead of just the data rate? -- Regards Joerg