Return-path: Received: from mail-vx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:33739 "EHLO mail-vx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932112Ab1CRXce (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:32:34 -0400 Received: by vxi39 with SMTP id 39so3990688vxi.19 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:32:33 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4D83EAF5.7030205@gmail.com> References: <4D83E3F6.9040202@gmail.com> <4D83EAF5.7030205@gmail.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:32:13 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 - The Linux Foundation is Accepted as Mentoring Organization To: Till Kamppeter Cc: Matt Smith , Kevin Hayes , Jouni Malinen , Johannes Berg , Greg KH , Grant Likely , linux-wireless , Driver Backport Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote: > On 03/19/2011 12:26 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> >> So one idea I was thinking about was that of using P2P to enable >> phones to grant a central box tethering capabilities to their 3G >> connection, while the central box acts as a regular AP. This can be >> useful on trains to enable users to share their internet and aggregate >> their connections together. So the project would consist of the >> utilities and hooks to get these boxen easily deployed anywhere. >> >> Since cell phones tend to beacon on the same channel, channel 6, the >> central box would only be able to aggregate more than 3G connection by >> having different phones establish a P2P connection on the same >> channel. Not sure how many connections this limits us to then. It >> would also be nice to get the AP to function as a regular AP on >> something other than channel 6 so I guess we'd need the central box to >> do P2P with multichannel operation. That support likely won't hit >> upstream for a while.. so hrmm.. >> >> Just an idea, maybe next year. > > I would simply post it. Hm, well the technical aspects of supporting such an implementation would be required upstream first. If I get feedback we can at least do some minimal 2-cell phone thether sharing setup then likely we can get someone to work on it. Looking for feedback on this though first. Luis