Re: compat-wireless and minstrel

Adam Wozniak
2009-11-16T17:57:56Z

This assumption seems too stoichastic. Reading 802.11-2007 section
11.1.2.2, it doesn't seem that we're guaranteed to always receive
beacons from all stations. Stations will cancel their pending beacon
transmission if they receive a beacon before their random delay times
out. In the extreme case where the number of stations is very large, it
seems possible that you may never hear beacons for some stations.

Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 09:25 -0800, Adam Wozniak wrote:
>
>> If we have only three stations in an ad-hoc network, where all three can
>> hear the other two, only one of them should be beaconing, correct?
>>
>
> No, if they all behave correctly beaconing will be distributed.
>
> johannes
>