[ath9k-devel] Delayed transmission configuration switching

2014-06-16 Thread Ali Abedi
Hello, We use the Ath9k driver for our 802.11 research projects. We transmit every frame using a new transmission rate (MCS, short GI, HT20/40). We cycle through all different rates (96 rates in our 3x3:3 testbed). We noticed that when we change the transmission configuration (i.e. from Short G

[ath9k-devel] The operation of Minstrel_ht

2014-10-10 Thread Ali Abedi
Hello, I have a few questions about the operation of Minstrel_ht. I couldn't find a good reference that explains minstrel_ht. I tried to understand it by reading the code. The fact that frame aggregation was added to the picture confuses me a bit. I understand the multirate retry chain in Mins

[ath9k-devel] Block ACK without frame aggregation

2014-10-22 Thread Ali Abedi
Hello, I am interested to know if we can send multiple packets (non-aggregated, single packets) and then ask for a block ACK? I like to know if this functionality has been implemented in ath9k or if it is possible to achieve this with slight code modifications. What I need: Frame-SIFS-Frame-SIF

[ath9k-devel] strange MPDU loss pattern

2014-10-24 Thread Ali Abedi
Hello, We study the effects of 802.11n frame aggregation on throughput. We noticed a strange pattern in the MPDU loss within an aggregated frame. It seems that the second half of the MPDUs (those with higher sequence numbers) in an aggregated frame are more likely to be lost. Is this a known fa

Re: [ath9k-devel] strange MPDU loss pattern

2014-10-24 Thread Ali Abedi
at 9:04 PM, Ali Abedi <mailto:a2ab...@uwaterloo.ca>> wrote: Hello, We study the effects of 802.11n frame aggregation on throughput. We noticed a strange pattern in the MPDU loss within an aggregated frame. It seems that the second half of the MPDUs (those wi

Re: [ath9k-devel] strange MPDU loss pattern

2014-10-24 Thread Ali Abedi
ring the > duration of a packet, the tail end is going to end up having less SNR > and may end up getting more errors. > > > -adrian > > On 24 October 2014 09:04, Ali Abedi wrote: >> Hello, >> >> We study the effects of 802.11n frame aggregation on throughput

Re: [ath9k-devel] strange MPDU loss pattern

2014-10-25 Thread Ali Abedi
, Ali On 25/10/2014 11:19 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 24 October 2014 13:42, Ali Abedi wrote: >> We don't use a rate adaptation at this moment (i.e., fixed rate) and the >> setup >> is stationary. So we expect to see relatively stable channel conditions. >> Eve

Re: [ath9k-devel] strange MPDU loss pattern

2014-10-25 Thread Ali Abedi
down initially then it goes up again in the second portion of the packet. Best, Ali On 25/10/2014 2:30 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On 25 October 2014 08:28, Ali Abedi wrote: Hi Adrian, We have a high end spectrum analyzer. So we are sure there is no background interference We run our experimen

Re: [ath9k-devel] strange MPDU loss pattern

2014-10-26 Thread Ali Abedi
e interesting part is that with the start of the next frame error rate goes down initially then it goes up again in the second portion of the packet. Best, Ali On 25/10/2014 2:30 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On 25 October 2014 08:28, Ali Abedi <mailto:a2ab...@uwaterloo.ca>wrote:

Re: [ath9k-devel] strange MPDU loss pattern

2014-10-30 Thread Ali Abedi
with FreeBSD right now. > > Do you get the same pattern on say, MCS0->MCS4 over a 4ms long aggregate > frame? > > > -adrian > > On 25 October 2014 13:35, Ali Abedi wrote: >> Thank you for sharing the story. >> Even if I consider interference as a possibility,

Re: [ath9k-devel] strange MPDU loss pattern

2014-10-30 Thread Ali Abedi
t; On 30 October 2014 08:48, Ali Abedi wrote: >> Hi Adrian, >> >> >> We observed that this can happen for any rate for some SNR values. >> If the SNR is strong enough for the given MCS this won't happen. >> But when the SNR approaches the transition region wh

Re: [ath9k-devel] The operation of Minstrel_ht

2014-11-03 Thread Ali Abedi
case except for the case where the BA never came back, as you said. On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Ali Abedi <mailto:a2ab...@uwaterloo.ca>> wrote: Hello, I have a few questions about the operation of Minstrel_ht. I couldn't find a good reference that expl

[ath9k-devel] RTS retry limit

2012-08-03 Thread Ali Abedi
x27;t RTS frames shorter than RTS threshold and therefore shouldn't the short retry limit control RTS retransmission? Regards, Ali Abedi ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel

[ath9k-devel] Performance degradation when monitor mode interface is created

2012-09-04 Thread Ali Abedi
. we have tried various versions of ATH9K but we observed the same behavior, Why the monitor mode interface on the sender client affects the throughput? Is this a bug? We are almost sure that this is not a performance limitation of our clients. Thank you,

Re: [ath9k-devel] Performance degradation when monitor mode interface is created

2012-09-04 Thread Ali Abedi
there is a context switch while going back and forth ! This will decrease the throughput as the actual interface is getting less time to sense the channel. Thats what I think ! - Abhinav Narain On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Ali Abedi <mailto:a2ab...@uwaterloo.ca>> wrote: Hello,

[ath9k-devel] Performance degradation when monitor interface is enabled

2012-10-23 Thread Ali Abedi
o 25 Mbps. This is not a performance issue. The performance is unaffected if monitor mode interface is enabled on the receiver (no monitor interface on sender). I really appropriate your answer. Regards, Ali Abedi ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-

Re: [ath9k-devel] Performance degradation when monitor interface is enabled

2012-10-23 Thread Ali Abedi
enabled on the sender. Ali On 10/23/2012 3:20 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 23 October 2012 12:06, Ali Abedi wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I asked this question once before but didn't get a satisfying answer. In >> our experiments, with two laptops running Ath9k driver w

Re: [ath9k-devel] Performance degradation when monitor interface is enabled

2012-10-25 Thread Ali Abedi
ng is that when I remove the monitor interface the throughput remains the same (low). Isn't this a bug? Thanks, Ali On 10/23/2012 4:51 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 23 October 2012 13:36, Ali Abedi wrote: >> Thanks Adrian. But there is no problem on the receiver side I assume >

[ath9k-devel] Channel busy cycles

2012-10-27 Thread Ali Abedi
Hello, I record the 4 registers showing tx, rx, busy, and total cycles. In a clean environment (checked with a spectrum analyzer) I expected to see busy = tx + rx. however, we have found that actually busy = tx + rx + constant. where this constant is rate dependent. For example for 54 Mbps, th

Re: [ath9k-devel] Channel busy cycles

2012-10-27 Thread Ali Abedi
air busy, and thus not > available for transmitting." > > > > Adrian > > On 27 October 2012 12:24, Ali Abedi wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I record the 4 registers showing tx, rx, busy, and total cycles. In a >> clean environment (checked with a spectr

Re: [ath9k-devel] Channel busy cycles

2012-10-28 Thread Ali Abedi
We set retry to 1 and I have checked there is no retries at all. I would appreciate if you ask because we need to figure out what's going on. Ali On 10/28/2012 2:25 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 27 October 2012 16:50, Ali Abedi wrote: >> Thanks for the answer. >> In this

Re: [ath9k-devel] Fwd: FW: Channel busy cycles

2012-11-10 Thread Ali Abedi
Thank you. The plot I posted before shows dependency between transmission rate and difference between busy and rx+tx counters. Can you please explain more how this diagram address this observation. Best, Ali On 11/9/2012 4:34 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote

Re: [ath9k-devel] Performance degradation when monitor interface is enabled

2012-12-20 Thread Ali Abedi
ver. Those folks who know more about this part of the driver may figure out what is going on after seeing this solution. Best, Ali On 23/10/2012 3:06 PM, Ali Abedi wrote: > Hello, > > I asked this question once before but didn't get a satisfying answer. In > our experiments, wit

Re: [ath9k-devel] CSI support

2013-06-25 Thread Ali Abedi
Hello everyone, I am also interested in accessing CSI. Please update us as soon as you got some good news. Best, Ali On 13-04-02 08:18 AM, Nikolay Makarov wrote: Dear Andres, Adrian preliminary confirmed it is possible to get CSI out of hardware. He helped me to send an internal request t

[ath9k-devel] CSI support

2013-07-25 Thread Ali Abedi
Hello, Is there any update on how to access the channel state information? Best regards, Ali ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel

[ath9k-devel] How to lock AMPDU length at a specific value?

2014-01-21 Thread Ali Abedi
Hello, I have seen questions regarding the length of an AMPDU and how to change the maximum AMPDU length. However, I require to lock the AMPDU length at a specific value. Changing the max length does not guarantee that all AMPDUs have a fixed length, it can be anything between 1 to max based on

Re: [ath9k-devel] How to lock AMPDU length at a specific value?

2014-01-21 Thread Ali Abedi
ttp://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=ath_tx_form_aggr> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Ali Abedi <mailto:a2ab...@uwaterloo.ca>> wrote: Hello, I have seen questions regarding the length of an AMPDU and how to change the maximum AMPDU length. However, I require to

Re: [ath9k-devel] Fwd: How to lock AMPDU length at a specific value?

2014-01-21 Thread Ali Abedi
ck if duration of packet is less tahn 4ms for ur MCS) and with nearly zero noise losses. Kamran On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Ali Abedi <mailto:a2ab...@uwaterloo.ca>> wrote: These mostly determine the MAX AMPDU length. I also want to determine the minimum length, so that

Re: [ath9k-devel] How to lock AMPDU length at a specific value?

2014-01-22 Thread Ali Abedi
form_aggr(). BR, Shinnazar --- Original Message --- *From : *Ali Abedi< a2ab...@uwaterloo.ca <mailto:a2ab...@uwaterloo.ca> > *To : *ath9k-de...@venema.h4ckr.net <mailto:ath9k-de...@venema.h4ckr.net> *CC : * *Sent : *2014-01-2

Re: [ath9k-devel] How to lock AMPDU length at a specific value?

2014-01-26 Thread Ali Abedi
ess" -u -t 10 -i 1 -b 50m -p 2. Hope this will help. > > BE, > Shinnazar > > --- Original Message --- > *From : *Ali Abedi< a2ab...@uwaterloo.ca > > *To : *ath9k-devel< ath9k-de...@venema.h4ckr.net > > *CC : *Kamran Nishat< kamran.nis...@gmai

Re: [ath9k-devel] How to lock AMPDU length at a specific value?

2014-01-26 Thread Ali Abedi
stopping the loop. One more thing there are some losses. In case of losses BlockAck window BAW will stop aggregate from growing. kamran On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Ali Abedi <mailto:a2ab...@uwaterloo.ca>> wrote: Thanks for all the replies. Sorry for not mentioning that I