[Make-wifi-fast] Thoughts on tackling airtime fairness

[moeller0]

> On May 11, 2016, at 17:15 , Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
> 
> David Lang <david at lang.hm> writes:
>> 
>> Take retransmissions as an example. They only happen because the
>> receiver didn't see them. If you were to get an aircap off the same
>> antenna as the receiver, you also wouldn't see them and therefor could
>> not account for them. In the real world, you are doing the aircap from
>> a different device, with a different antenna so what you see will be
>> even more different. Now think about the normal case where you have
>> two stations taking in two very different locations and one device to
>> do the aircap.
>> 
>> If we don't have anything else, aircaps are what we have to fall back
>> on, but we need to realize how much we can't see at that point.
> 
> Hmm, hadn't thought of that. Damn. Well, guess we'll have to trust the
> driver (or make it trustworthy if we can’t).

	This issue seems surmountable, just make sure the air-capping machine is a) located halfway between the other two hosts in question and b) has better antennas ;) . It should be possible to “degrade” the antenna quality of the two hosts to make sure the air-capper (sounds like a fancy whale species) has better RF visibility…

Best Regards
	Sebastian


> 
> -Toke
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