Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT applied to e2e TCP msg latency

2021-10-29 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
1 ms (20%) 40=40:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 0 [ 1] 9.00-9.20 sec 40.0 KBytes 1.63 Mbits/sec 200.665 ms (20%) 40=40:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 0 [ 1] 0.00-10.00 sec 400 KBytes 328 Kbits/sec 402=402:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 Bob On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 9:04 AM Christoph Paasch wrote: > > > > On Oct 26, 2021,

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT applied to e2e TCP msg latency

2021-10-26 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
:0 0 [ 1] 0.-10.0031 sec 400 KBytes 328 Kbits/sec 104=104:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 Bob On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 6:12 PM Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > On 10/26/21 4:38 PM, Christoph Paasch wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > > >> On Oct 26, 2021, at 4:23 PM, Bob McMahon <mailto:bob.mcma

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT applied to e2e TCP msg latency

2021-10-26 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
t; On Oct 25, 2021, at 9:24 PM, Eric Dumazet > wrote: > > > > > > > > On 10/25/21 8:11 PM, Stuart Cheshire via Bloat wrote: > >> On 21 Oct 2021, at 17:51, Bob McMahon via Make-wifi-fast < > make-wifi-f...@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote: > >> >

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Starlink] [Make-wifi-fast] TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT applied to e2e TCP msg latency

2021-10-26 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
side the TCP traffic. The requirement > for this to work is that the TWAMP packets are placed in the same queue(s) > as the TCP traffic, and that the impact of measurement traffic is small > enough so as not to interfere too much with your TCP results. > Just my two cents, hope it's h

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT applied to e2e TCP msg latency

2021-10-25 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
has been to measure first write() to final read() and compute the e2e delay. This requires clock sync on the ends. (We're using ptp4l with GPS OCXO atomic references for that but this is typically only available in some labs.) Bob On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 8:11 PM Stuart Cheshire wrote: &

[Cerowrt-devel] TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT applied to e2e TCP msg latency

2021-10-21 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
--- Begin Message --- Hi All, Sorry for the spam. I'm trying to support a meaningful TCP message latency w/iperf 2 from the sender side w/o requiring e2e clock synchronization. I thought I'd try to use the TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT event to help with this. It seems that this event goes off when the bytes

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Starlink] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-09-23 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
--- Begin Message --- Hi All, I do appreciate this thread as well. As a test & measurement guy here are my conclusions around network performance. Thanks in advance for any comments. Congestion can be mitigated the following ways o) Size queues properly to minimize/negate bloat (easier said than

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Starlink] Anhyone have a spare couple a hundred million ... Elon may need to start a go-fund-me page!

2021-08-10 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
handing out money, SpaceX is foolish not to apply for > it. > > David Lang > > On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, Jeremy Austin wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:33:11 -0800 > > From: Jeremy Austin > > To: dick...@alum.mit.edu > > Cc: Cake List , > > Make-Wi

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Starlink] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-10 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
are doomed to fail I suspect that it is in > calibration where the major difference in performance between vendors’’ > products can be found :^ > > > > It’s complicated … > > > -- > > *From:* Bob McMahon [mailto:bob.mcma...@broadcom.c

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Starlink] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-10 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
; a complex function causes. > > Hope this helps ... probably a bit more than you really wanted to know as > queuing theorists, but ... > > -Original Message- > From: Starlink [mailto:starlink-boun...@lists.bufferbloat.net] On Behalf > Of > Rodney W. Grimes > Sent:

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] [Starlink] [Cake] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-08 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
--- Begin Message --- Some people put them on roombas. Doesn't work well inside these http://ramseytest.com/index.php On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 11:48 AM Jonathan Morton wrote: > > On 8 Aug, 2021, at 9:36 pm, Aaron Wood wrote: > > > > Less common, but something I still see, is that a moving station

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Starlink] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-07 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
variable range and variable mixing is a step towards closing the gap. Bob On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 10:07 PM Dick Roy wrote: > > > > -- > > *From:* Starlink [mailto:starlink-boun...@lists.bufferbloat.net] *On > Behalf Of *Bob McMahon > *Sent:* Monday

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Starlink] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-07 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
wrote: > > > > -- > > *From:* Starlink [mailto:starlink-boun...@lists.bufferbloat.net] *On > Behalf Of *Bob McMahon > *Sent:* Monday, August 2, 2021 8:23 PM > *To:* David Lang > *Cc:* starl...@lists.bufferbloat.net; Make-Wifi-fast; Cake List; >

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Starlink] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-07 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
[mailto:starlink-boun...@lists.bufferbloat.net] On Behalf > Of > David Lang > Sent: Monday, August 2, 2021 9:31 PM > To: Bob McMahon > Cc: starl...@lists.bufferbloat.net; Make-Wifi-fast; Cake List; > co...@lists.bufferbloat.net; cerowrt-devel; bloat > Subject: Re: [Starlink] [Cake]

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] [Starlink] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-03 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
x27;re > talking 10s to low 100s of feet, not miles) > > David Lang > > On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, Bob McMahon wrote: > > > fair enough, but for this "RF emulator device" being able to support > > distance matrices, even hollow symmetric ones, is much better than wh

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] [Starlink] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-02 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
tation, you don't adjust it's receive > sensitivity. > > David Lang > > On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, Bob McMahon wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 20:23:06 -0700 > > From: Bob McMahon > > To: David Lang > > Cc: Ben Greear , > > Luca Muscarie

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] [Starlink] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-02 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
ut you need to have a way > to > configure your lab to include them before you consider any > settings/algorithm > ready to try in the wild. > > David Lang > > On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, Bob McMahon wrote: > > > We find four nodes, a primary BSS and an adjunct one quite goo

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] [Starlink] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-02 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
--- Begin Message --- I found the following talk relevant to distances between all the nodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNoUcQTCxiM Distance is an abstract idea but applies to energy into a node as well as phylogenetic trees. It's the same problem, i.e. fitting a distance matrix using some s

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] [Starlink] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-02 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
--- Begin Message --- We find four nodes, a primary BSS and an adjunct one quite good for lots of testing. The six nodes allows for a primary BSS and two adjacent ones. We want to minimize complexity to necessary and sufficient. The challenge we find is having variability (e.g. montecarlos) that'

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] [Starlink] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-02 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
--- Begin Message --- That distance matrices manage energy between nodes. The slides show a 5 branch tree to realize 4 nodes (and that distance matrix) and a diagram for 11 degrees of freedom for 6 nodes (3 BSS) The python code will compute the branch attenuations based on a supplied distance mat

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-22 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
it.) But the story is not over as > much work has yet to be done to develop the algorithms that can properly > deal with congestion in the sense that this email chain continues to > discuss it. > > Best, > Len > > > > > > > > On Jul 13, 2021, at 10:49 AM,

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-18 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
ook like something in between. > https://burntchrome.blogspot.com/2016/09/iperf3-and-microbursts.html > > > > I'll let others try to figure out how build and tune the knobs, but the >> data acquisition and >> visualization is something we might try to accomplish. I

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-15 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
s "nerd language" that is beyond human comprehension.) This cli option sets the socket option and causes the use of select for writes (vs a write spin loop.) Thanks in advance for any suggestions here, Bob On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 6:27 PM Holland, Jake wrote: > From: Bob McMahon vi

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-14 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
eve they are > >> difficult to reproduce (we are always talking about very short TCP > flows - > >> the infinite TCP flow that converges to a steady behavior is purely > >> academic). > >> > >> By the way, Little's law is a strong tool when it comes to average

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-13 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
1617.3326146 or if behind a paywall > https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~florin/lib/sigmet19b.pdf > > > Amr Rizk (amr.r...@uni-due.de) > University of Duisburg-Essen > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Bloat Im Auftrag von Ben Greear > Gesen

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-13 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~florin/lib/sigmet19b.pdf > > > Amr Rizk (amr.r...@uni-due.de) > University of Duisburg-Essen > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Bloat Im Auftrag von Ben Greear > Gesendet: Montag, 12. Juli 2021 22:32 > An: B

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-12 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
ng we might try to accomplish. I have a feeling > I'm > > not the > > first person to think of this, howeverprobably someone already has > done > > such > > a thing. > > > > Thanks, > > Ben > > > > On 7/12/21 1:04 PM, Bob McMahon

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-12 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
oweverprobably someone already has > done such > a thing. > > Thanks, > Ben > > On 7/12/21 1:04 PM, Bob McMahon wrote: > > I believe end host's TCP stats are insufficient as seen per the "failed" > congested control mechanisms over the last decad

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-12 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
r just ping 8.8.8.8 which is > 20ms from everywhere due to > $magic). > > Endpoints could also triangulate a bit if needed, using some anchor points > in the network > under test. > > Thanks, > Ben > > On 7/12/21 11:21 AM, Bob McMahon wrote: > > iperf 2 supports OWD

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-12 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
--- Begin Message --- To be clear, it's a OS write() using a socket opened with TCP and the final OS read() of that write. The write size is set using -l or --length. OWD requires --trip-times option. Bob On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 11:21 AM Bob McMahon wrote: > iperf 2 supports OWD and gi

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-12 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
--- Begin Message --- iperf 2 supports OWD and gives full histograms for TCP write to read, TCP connect times, latency of packets (with UDP), latency of "frames" with simulated video traffic (TCP and UDP), xfer times of bursts with low duty cycle traffic, and TCP RTT (sampling based.) It also has s

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-10 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
n Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 12:51 PM Bob McMahon wrote: > "Analyzing that is really difficult, and if we don’t measure and sense, we > have no hope of understanding, controlling, or ameliorating such > situations." > > It is truly a high honor to observe the queueing theory and

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-10 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
;> Where does the Poisson assumption come from? Well, like many theorems, >> it is the simplest tractable closed form solution - it creates a simplified >> view, by being a "single-parameter" distribution (the parameter is called >> lambda for a Poisson distributio

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-09 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
many theorems, >> it is the simplest tractable closed form solution - it creates a simplified >> view, by being a "single-parameter" distribution (the parameter is called >> lambda for a Poisson distribution). And the analysis of a simple queue >> with poisson arriva

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Starlink] [Make-wifi-fast] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-07-08 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
Tuesday, July 6, 2021 9:46am, "Ben Greear" > said: > > > Hello, > > > > I am interested to hear wish lists for network testing features. We make > test > > equipment, supporting lots > > of wifi stations and a distributed architecture, with built

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Starlink] [Make-wifi-fast] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-07-07 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
ers, or mostly > just radio manufacturers such > as BCM? > > In case someone has one of these that has a sane API, I'd consider adding > automation support > to drive it while running throughput or RvR or whatever other types of > tests seem interesting. > > Thanks,

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Starlink] [Make-wifi-fast] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-07-06 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
s pricing offlist if you > wish. > > Thanks, > Ben > > On 7/6/21 1:43 PM, Bob McMahon wrote: > > The four part attenuator part would be more interesting to me if it also > had a solid state phase shifters. This allows for testing 2x2 MIMO testing > per > > affecting the spa

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Starlink] [Make-wifi-fast] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-07-06 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
p, tcp, > ipv6, http, ... protocols, > and open to creating/improving some of our automated tests. > > I know Dave has some test scripts already, so I'm not necessarily looking > to reimplement that, > but more fishing for other/new ideas. > > Thanks, > Ben > > On

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-07-02 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
--- Begin Message --- I think we need the language of math here. It seems like the network power metric, introduced by Kleinrock and Jaffe in the late 70s, is something useful. Effective end/end queue depths per Little's law also seems useful. Both are available in iperf 2 from a test perspective.

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-07-01 Thread Bob McMahon via Cerowrt-devel
--- Begin Message --- I think even packets are a network construct. End/end protocols don't write packets. They mostly make writes() and reads and have no clue about packets. Except for, of course, UDP which you know everything about being the original designer. Agreed the telemetry is most inter

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

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
et 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.

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

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 12:45 PM Jonathan Morton wrote: > > On 27 Aug, 2018, at 10:11 pm, Bob McMahon > wrote: > > > > I guess my question is can a WiFi transmitting device rely on primarily > energy detect and mostly ignore the EDCA probability game and rather search >

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

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
I thought that RTS/CTS would handle the case of hidden nodes, i.e. a device that fails to successfully transmit can resort to RTS/CTS to get the receiver to reserve time for it. Also, lack of a RX ack seems ok to trigger MAC level retransmits. It seems the LBT bug is the collision avoidance overh

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

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
hip-transmits-and-receives-wireless-signals-at-once > http://fullduplex.rice.edu/research/ > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 9:46 PM Jonathan Morton > wrote: > >> > On 27 Aug, 2018, at 10:11 pm, Bob McMahon >> wrote: >> > >> > I guess my question is can a

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

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
l life > situations when scaled up. There are pro and contra in many methods of > spectrum allocations, no doubt about that, but I don't feel that there > exists one clear "best" method that we are purposefully neglecting. > > Of course at the same time, scalable unre

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

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
Lang wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2018, Bob McMahon wrote: > > > I thought that RTS/CTS would handle the case of hidden nodes, i.e. a > device > > that fails to successfully transmit can resort to RTS/CTS to get the > > receiver to reserve time for it. Also, lack of a RX ack

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

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
Curious to how LBT can be solved at the PHY level and if the potential solution sets preserve the end to end principle. Bob On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 5:26 AM David P. Reed wrote: > Baran: I got the year wrong. I remember it as 1993, but it was 1994 CNGN > speech he made, which is resurrected here

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

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
Jonathan Morton wrote: > > On 27 Aug, 2018, at 10:06 am, Bob McMahon > wrote: > > > > How can a centralized device predict the many "end stations'" network > demand in its time scheduling? > > DOCSIS does it by initially giving stations a tiny window into

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

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
tion (with partial network awareness) vs having a centralized scheduler (with "full" network awareness)? Bob On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 11:26 PM Jonathan Morton wrote: > > On 27 Aug, 2018, at 9:00 am, Bob McMahon > wrote: > > > > Curious to how LBT can be solved at the

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

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
like APs. Bob On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 1:34 AM Bob McMahon wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > I think in 802.11ax the AP can schedule STAs to some extent so it looks > like that technique is coming soon. It is a bw tradeoff per the RUs per > user. > > Multi-User Uplink Operation

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market demandfor better wifi

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
ision succeeded - hopefully negating the need for the 802.11 ack. (It does seem the wired engineers have it much easier per the point/point, full duplex and wave guides.) Bob On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 2:09 PM, David Lang wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Bob McMahon wrote: > > packet size is smalle

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market demandfor better wifi

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
Hi All, This is a very interesting thread - thanks to all for taking the time to respond. (Personally, I now have better understanding of the difficulties associated with a PHY subsystem that supports a wide 1GHz.) Not to derail the current discussion, but I am curious to ideas on addressing th

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market demandfor better wifi

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
uming collision avoidance could be replaced with collision detect.) Bob On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:09 PM, David Lang wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Bob McMahon wrote: > > The ~10K is coming from empirical measurements where all aggregation >> technologies are disabled, i.e. only one s

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market demand for better wifi

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
a good range of the AP, this would work pretty well. If you end up > needing multiple APs, or you have many stations, I expect that you will be > better off with more APs at lower power, each using different channels. > > David Lang > > > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2016, Bob McMah

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market demand for better wifi

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
hmm, I'm skeptical. To use multiple carriers simultaneously is difficult per RF issues. Even if that is somehow resolved, to increase throughput usually requires some form of channel bonding, i.e. needed on both sides, and brings in issues with preserving frame ordering. If this is just channe

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market demand for better wifi

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
otocol > manage the station transmit power so that signals received at the AP are > nearly the same power. > > Equalization at transmit works very well when there is a central AP (as in > cellular or normal WiFi systems). > > > > On Thursday, June 23, 2016 4:28pm, &quo

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market demand for better wifi

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
unit is talking to one AP the signal levels > across multiple channels will be similar. Which is probably fairly true. > > > David Lang > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2016, Bob McMahon wrote: > > Curious, where does the "in a LAN setup, the variability in [receive] >> signal stre

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market demandfor better wifi

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
structure mode?) If that's the case, what about a different band (and different radio) such that the strong signal carrying the data could be separated from the the BSSID's "carrier/energy state" signal? Bob On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:40 PM, David Lang wrote: > On Mon,

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market demandfor better wifi

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
> Thanks in advance for the discussion. >> >> Bob >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 2:24 PM, wrote: >> >> Without custom silicon, doing what I was talking about would involve non >>> standard MAC power management, whic

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market demandfor better wifi

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
stalltions, but 25 can be seen in reflection heavy > environments.-Original Message- > From: "David Lang" > Sent: Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 1:19 am > To: "Bob McMahon" > Cc: "Bob McMahon" , > make-wifi-f...@lists.bufferbloat.net, "cerowrt-devel

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market demandfor better wifi

2020-03-30 Thread Bob McMahon
Bob On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 3:18 PM, David Lang wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Bob McMahon wrote: > > While the 802.11 ack doesn't need to do collision avoidance, it does need >> to wait a SIFS, send a PHY header and its typically transmitted at lower >> PHY rate.