[Bloat] sigcomm wifi

David Lang david at lang.hm
Fri Aug 22 19:30:29 EDT 2014


On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:23:01AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>> I also remember a problem that was solved by turning down the
>> transmit power of the APs, as they were causing problems due to too
>> much interference between them. Sometimes the solutions aren't all
>> intuitive, and +1 on the experience of running these kinds of
>> networks being important.
>
> This is very common on 2.4 GHz (and will happen by itself in a
> controller-based setup). Anything that reduces the cell size is good
> (assuming you have enough APs for all the resulting cells); if you go to big
> stadiums etc., you will also see lots of directional antennas to reduce the
> cell size further.
>
> Note that the AP also can ask _clients_ to reduce their power level
> accordingly.

can you give a pointer to this? I'd like to check if openwrt does this and how 
to configure it (and if not, what would it take to get it added)

David Lang



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