Berlin, 2009

The wireless summit is over, with 15-20 people having attended. Here are presentations and notes:

• Johannes’s overview

• userspace rate control API discussion

• Kalle’s power save presentation

• IEEE 802.11 standardization activity

• Notes
  • full-mac support
  • test mode
  • antenna settings
  • rate control (and userspace API)
  • wext deprecation
  • action frame processing
  • channel stats/noise reporting
  • ROAMING (moving within ESS)

What

A small wireless summit colocated with FUDCon. Find more information at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009.

When

June 26/27 2009 (most (?) people arriving June 25, leaving June 28)

Where

(See FUDCon information)

Confirmed Talks

• power saving - Kalle (and maybe Johannes wrt. pm_qos?)

• mac80211/cfg80211 overview - Johannes (like at UDS)

“Workshops”

• full-MAC hardware cfg80211 support (connect/disconnect commands)

• cfg80211 wext compat work

  • channel setting vs. virtual interfaces

  • stats

  • managed mode (Johannes has it mostly worked out in his head, cf. IBSS)

  • iwrate

  • key/auth stuff

  • power saving (iwpower)

  • tx power (iwtxpower)

• rate control userspace API

• how to tell userspace about noise measurements

• user space extensions for mac80211 management frame processing (e.g., action frames)

Suggested topics/talks

• IBSS support

• HT/11n - including A-M[PS]DU details

• improved roaming support (between BSSes in an ESS)

Schedule

(proposed)

Thursday

Some sightseeing/dinner with a small group of hackers? Or check out LinuxTag?

Friday

(“hackfest” – more internal stuff)

Time	Session	Type	Owner
10:00 - 11:00	full-MAC hw support	discussion	Johannes/Samuel
11:00 - 12:00	cfg80211 WEXT compat work topics	discussion	Johannes
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:00	lunch
14:00 - 15:00	John’s wireless talk
15:00 - 16:00	mgmt processing extensions rate control userspace API noise measurement	discussion	Jouni Johannes ?
16:00 - 17:00
17:00 - 18:00	roaming improvements	discussion	Kalle

Saturday

(“barcamp” – more presentation style stuff)

Time	Session	Type	Owner
10:00 - 11:00	mac80211/cfg80211 overview	presentation	Johannes
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:00	powersaving	presentation	Kalle
13:00 - 14:00	lunch
14:00 - 15:00	Freifunk infrastructure	presentation	Juergen Neumann
15:00 - 16:00	802.11 activity	presentation	Jouni
16:00 - 17:00	user question panel
17:00 - 18:00

Confirmed attendees

• John

• Kalle

• Jouni

• Johannes (can realistically attend sessions Thu 15:00 - Sun 16:00)

• Helmut

• Marcel(?)

• Bob

• Felix

• Henning

• Samuel

• Ivo

• Luis (Correia)

• Nick