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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Björn Smedman" <bjorn@openias.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
Subject: Re: Bayesian rate control
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 07:28:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1477286912.4085.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGp19xcg1qCP3+JNbuiB7Hx=UjLN7KP55wVJT0sKV-iE12501A@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20161023_160622_798535_C6DAB0EF)


> 1. Is there anybody else out there thinking along similar lines?

I'm not aware, but that may not mean much :)

> 2. What would be the best hardware/software stack to base this work
> on?
> 
> I'm thinking the best driver for rate control experimentation would
> be ath9k, right? If so then a TP-Link TL-WA901ND router (apparently
> based on Qualcomm QCA956x SOC) with OpenWrt, and a TP-Link TL-WDN4800 
> PCIe card (apparently based on Atheros AR9380 with PCI ID 168c:0030)
> for my desktop sounds like a good combo, no? 

Seems reasonable, yes. You wouldn't have VHT, but HT has enough search
space to keep you busy ;-)

> But would I have to run a custom kernel on my desktop then (or can I
> somehow get by with an Ubuntu standard kernel)?

You could use a backported driver. https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/

johannes

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
Subject: [ath9k-devel] Bayesian rate control
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 07:28:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1477286912.4085.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGp19xcg1qCP3+JNbuiB7Hx=UjLN7KP55wVJT0sKV-iE12501A@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20161023_160622_798535_C6DAB0EF)


> 1. Is there anybody else out there thinking along similar lines?

I'm not aware, but that may not mean much :)

> 2. What would be the best hardware/software stack to base this work
> on?
> 
> I'm thinking the best driver for rate control experimentation would
> be ath9k, right? If so then a TP-Link TL-WA901ND router (apparently
> based on Qualcomm QCA956x SOC) with OpenWrt, and a TP-Link TL-WDN4800 
> PCIe card (apparently based on Atheros AR9380 with PCI ID 168c:0030)
> for my desktop sounds like a good combo, no? 

Seems reasonable, yes. You wouldn't have VHT, but HT has enough search
space to keep you busy ;-)

> But would I have to run a custom kernel on my desktop then (or can I
> somehow get by with an Ubuntu standard kernel)?

You could use a backported driver. https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-24  5:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-23 13:57 Bayesian rate control Björn Smedman
2016-10-23 13:57 ` [ath9k-devel] " Björn Smedman
2016-10-24  5:28 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2016-10-24  5:28   ` Johannes Berg
2016-10-24 20:17   ` Björn Smedman
2016-10-24 20:23     ` [ath9k-devel] " Björn Smedman
2016-10-25  7:14     ` Johannes Berg
2016-10-25  7:14       ` [ath9k-devel] " Johannes Berg
2016-10-26  3:25       ` Adrian Chadd
2016-10-26  3:25         ` [ath9k-devel] " Adrian Chadd
2016-10-26  5:56         ` Johannes Berg
2016-10-26  5:56           ` [ath9k-devel] " Johannes Berg
2016-10-29 20:50           ` Björn Smedman
2016-11-05  5:09           ` Adrian Chadd
2016-11-05  5:09             ` [ath9k-devel] " Adrian Chadd
2016-11-15  9:34             ` Johannes Berg
2016-11-15  9:34               ` [ath9k-devel] " Johannes Berg
2016-11-16  4:45               ` Adrian Chadd
2016-11-16  4:45                 ` [ath9k-devel] " Adrian Chadd
2016-10-24 15:09 ` Dave Taht
2016-10-24 15:09   ` [ath9k-devel] " Dave Taht
2016-10-25 19:41 ` Thomas Hühn

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