From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: hostap@lists.infradead.org, make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH] hostapd: Add airtime policy configuration support
Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 14:59:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87woj9j9ll.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190502123827.GA19359@w1.fi>
Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 03:58:52PM +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> This adds support to hostapd for configuring airtime policy settings for
>> stations as they connect to the access point. This is the userspace
>> component of the airtime policy enforcement system PoliFi described in this
>> paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03439
>>
>> The kernel part has been merged into mac80211 for the 5.1 dev cycle.
>>
>> The configuration mechanism has three modes: Static, dynamic and limit. In
>> static mode, weights can be set in the configuration file for individual
>> MAC addresses, which will be applied when the configured stations connect.
>>
>> In dynamic mode, weights are instead set per BSS, which will be scaled by
>> the number of active stations on that BSS, achieving the desired aggregate
>> weighing between the configured BSSes. Limit mode works like dynamic mode,
>> except that any BSS *not* marked as 'limited' is allowed to exceed its
>> configured share if a per-station fairness share would assign more airtime
>> to that BSS. See the paper for details on these modes.
>
> Thanks, applied with some fixes and cleanup.
Awesome, thanks! :)
-Toke
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-20 14:58 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-05-02 12:38 ` Jouni Malinen
2019-05-02 12:59 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
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