<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Tim,</div><div><br></div><div>I know this will probably be in your write-up, but I am curious if you are sniffing the traffic to verify that OFDMA is actually happening by pinning the aid to the monitor interface and using a wireshark display filter radiotap.he.data_1.ppdu_format==0x2 to see the HE_MU frames. From my testing it is not something that is automatically in use all the time...it is used as needed per each AP's decision algorithm. I seem to be able to cause OFDMA to happen sometimes when using small payloads with bursty traffic and periods of quiet, but it is not something that I can turn on and just say OFDMA is happening.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, in my flent tcp_download vs tcp_upload tests I see similar latency values that are both relatively low. I will have to run the rtt_fair_var to see how it compares.</div><div><br></div><div>Nice use of flent! Looking forward to your write-up.</div><div>Isaac</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 2:40 PM Tim Higgins <<a href="mailto:tim@smallnetbuilder.com">tim@smallnetbuilder.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I finally have my testbed
working the way I want and am starting to run tests to see if
OFDMA does anything useful.<br>
<br>
This will all be covered in detail in an upcoming
SmallNetBuilder article. But I wanted to sanity check something
with this esteemed group.<br>
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The tests are basically the flent rtt_fair_var up and down tests
ported to the octoScope platform I use for WiFi testing.<br>
The initial work was done on flent, with a lot of hand-holding
from Toke. (Thank you, Toke!)<br>
<br>
Using 4 Intel AX200 STAs on Win10. iperf3 is running traffic
using TCP/IP with unthrottled bandwidth. I've taken Bjørn's idea
and have each STA using a different DSCP priority level, but
with TCP/IP traffic, not UDP. I'm sticking to using CS0-7
equivalents and confirmed that the iperf3 --dscp values properly
translate to the intended WiFi priority levels. Each STA has a
different priority, either CS0,3,5 or 6 (best effort, excellent
effort, video and voice).<br>
<br>
Ping is used to measure latency and always runs from AP to STA.
Only TCP/IP traffic direction is reversed between the down and
uplink tests.<br>
<br>
One thing that jumps out immediately is that uplink latencies
are *much* lower than downlink, with either OFDMA on or off.
Attached are three examples. The CDFs are average latency of the
4 STAs.<br>
<br>
The NETGEAR R7800 is a 4x4 AC Qualcomm-based. I'm using this as
a baseline product.<br>
<br>
The NETGEAR RAX15 is 2x2 AX Broadcom-based. You can see what I
mean when I say OFDMA doesn't help.<br>
<br>
Does this much difference between up and downlink latency pass
the sniff test?<br>
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Tim</font></div>
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