[Battlemesh] Dynamic TX power

[Ferry Huberts]

To be truely effective this needs to be solved in the hardware, or at 
least very very close to it.
Like UMTS has been doing for the past decade; it's a solved problem, but 
has never been a priority for WLAN HW vendors.

On 31/12/15 10:19, Henning Rogge wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Benjamin Henrion <zoobab at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yesterday in its 32C3 talk Felix mentioned some friends working on
>> diminish TX power dynamically without loosing performance.
>
> Google for "minstrel blues linux" to learn more about this.
>
>> It think this is key for Battlemesh, as in the past with old Foneras I
>> had to insist on setting the TX power to 1dbm, because at 18dbm it is
>> a real waste.
>>
>> Shooting at 18dbm while the node you want to communicate with is 2
>> meters away, I call this polution.
>
> At the moment its only a solution for unicast... but I think it could
> be extended to data-multicast (beacons and management-frames need to
> be "full power", otherwise you would never detect the neighbors).
>
> Henning
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Ferry Huberts