Return-path: Received: from mail.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de ([130.149.220.252]:42546 "EHLO mail.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755390Ab2GKOgd (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:36:33 -0400 Message-ID: <4FFD8F6F.7030100@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> (sfid-20120711_163636_818668_CC068754) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:36:31 +0200 From: Thomas Huehn MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DINO MYCLE CC: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Per packet TPC is it implimented ? References: <28DA1CA8CF17234FB030B1ECF787E6B7B9339AD6D4@EXGMBX01.sasken.com> <4FFD63C0.6080002@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> <28DA1CA8CF17234FB030B1ECF787E6B7B9339AD7A0@EXGMBX01.sasken.com> <4FFD7646.9060404@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> <28DA1CA8CF17234FB030B1ECF787E6B7B9339AD7AC@EXGMBX01.sasken.com> In-Reply-To: <28DA1CA8CF17234FB030B1ECF787E6B7B9339AD7AC@EXGMBX01.sasken.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: DINO MYCLE schrieb: > Hello Thomas, > Sorry, got it....so how is the performance any report or observation you can share ? > Our initial results (including mac80211 & TPC controller design, with validations) are published at the ICCCN conference end of July within our paper: "Practical Power and Rate Control for WiFi" in short: - TPC per packet on Atheros 802.11 g/a/n chips works well - without giving up on throughput there are often cases to reduce transmit power by significant amount of dB - to show increased spatial reuse in a WLAN network is current work The pdf should be online soon at: http://www.inet.tu-berlin.de/menue/research/publications/by_author/thomas_publ/ Currently we are running performance measurements (network sum throughput) in outdoor and indoor environments with our joint power-rate controller "Minstrel-Blues". Collecting, parsing, plotting traces is just ongoing work. Greetings Thomas