[Make-wifi-fast] [Bloat] [Cerowrt-devel] closing up my make-wifi-fast lab

[Luca Muscariello]

Jonathan,

Not that giant handwaving though.
IEEE 802.11ax makes use of "almost TDM" RTS/CTS and scheduling. The almost
is necessary as it operates in 2.4/5Ghz bands.
Similar to what you describe, and is coming very soon in shipping products.

RTS/CTS is still a LBT to create a window where TDM can be done.
I don't yet see how a non private spectrum can be shared  w/o LBT.

On the other hand, medium sharing is one thing, the other thing is
capacity.
There is no way to efficiently share a medium if this is used close to its
theoretical capacity.

Capacity as #of stations per band including #SSID per band. Today scaling
can be achieved
with careful radio planning for spatial diversity or dynamic bean forming.

When you approach capacity with WiFi you only see beacon traffic and almost
zero throughput.
Cannot forget Mobile World Congress where you can measure several thousands
of SSIDs on 2.4
and several hundreds of SSID in 5GHz. But even LTE was very close to
capacity.

Dave,
Having air time fairness in open source is a significant achievement. I
don't see a failure.

Luca


On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 8:26 AM Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > On 27 Aug, 2018, at 9:00 am, Bob McMahon <bob.mcmahon at broadcom.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Curious to how LBT can be solved at the PHY level and if the potential
> solution sets preserve the end to end principle.
>
> The usual alternatives include TDM, usually coordinated by a master device
> (eg. the AP); full-duplex operation via diplexers and/or orthogonal coding;
> and simply firing off a packet and retrying with exponential backoff if an
> acknowledgement is not heard.
>
> TDM and diplexing are already used by both DOCSIS and LTE.  They are
> proven technology.  However, in DOCSIS the diplexing is greatly simplified
> by the use of a copper channel rather than airwaves, and in LTE the
> diplexer is fitted only at the tower, not in each client - so the tower can
> transmit and receive simultaneously, but an individual client cannot, but
> this is still useful because there are many clients per tower.  Effective
> diplexers for wireless are expensive.
>
> Orthogonal coding is already used by GPS and, in a rather esoteric form,
> by MIMO-grade wifi.  IMHO it works rather better in GPS than in wifi.  In
> GPS, it allows all of the satellites in the constellation to transmit on
> the standard frequency simultaneously, while still being individually
> distinguishable.  The data rate is very low, however, since each
> satellite's signal inherently has a negative SNR (because there's a dozen
> others shouting over it) - that's why it takes a full minute for a receiver
> to get a fix from cold, because it simply takes that long to download the
> ephemeris from the first satellite whose signal is found.
>
> A future version of wifi could reasonably use TDM, I think, but not
> diplexing.  The way this would work is that the AP assigns each station
> (including itself) a series of time windows in which to transmit as much as
> they like, and broadcasts this schedule along with its beacon.  Also
> scheduled would be windows in which the AP listens for new stations,
> including possibly other nearby APs with which it may mutually coordinate
> time.  A mesh network could thus be constructed entirely out of mutually
> coordinating APs if necessary.
>
> The above paragraph is obviously a giant handwave...
>
>  - Jonathan Morton
>
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