From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
luciano.coelho@nokia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mac80211: cfg80211: Roam trigger support
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:46:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269499567.5041.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1269327754-995-1-git-send-email-juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 09:02 +0200, Juuso Oikarinen wrote:
> To implement good performance WLAN roaming, it is not sufficient to start
> scanning for other available AP's only after the currently serving association
> is lost.
>
> The entity controlling the roaming will need to get indication of a
> deteriorating WLAN connection in order to start preparing for roaming already
> before the serving association is lost. This way, it can roam to a better AP
> perhaps even before the serving association becomes too bad in quality.
>
> These patches propose an implementation facilitating this using a simple RSSI
> threshold and hysteresis approach.
So this is merged, anyone want to implement it in mac80211 so we can
start playing with it? I won't get around to it for quite a while.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-25 6:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-23 7:02 [PATCH 0/2] mac80211: cfg80211: Roam trigger support Juuso Oikarinen
2010-03-23 7:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: Add connection quality monitoring support to nl80211 Juuso Oikarinen
2010-03-23 16:23 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-03-24 6:14 ` Juuso Oikarinen
2010-03-24 6:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-03-23 7:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: Add support for connection quality monitoring Juuso Oikarinen
2010-03-23 7:13 ` Marcel Holtmann
2010-03-23 7:37 ` Juuso Oikarinen
2010-03-23 12:14 ` Marcel Holtmann
2010-03-23 13:20 ` John W. Linville
2010-03-23 16:21 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-03-25 6:46 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-03-28 19:43 ` [PATCH 0/2] mac80211: cfg80211: Roam trigger support Jouni Malinen
2010-03-28 22:48 ` Jouni Malinen
2010-03-29 6:27 ` Johannes Berg
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