Hi Simon,
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 02:51:09PM +0100, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
Mhm, I'd generally recommend the Matthew Gast books on 802.11, these are very good.
Thanks, sounds good! Is "802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide" recent enough? Seems to be from 2005.
The throughput limitation I'm talking about is a mesh-network specific problem when you use single radios only: as a wifi radio can only transmit or receive at the same time, the throughput will be cut to 50% with the first hop, and will decrease furhter with more hops. I don't know if there are books about such effects, but there are certainly papers ...
Will search.
Would having a 2nd transmitter help?
Can you give me a hint which feature I need to search for in the kernel drivers?
ath9k supports that for example. you can set the txpower using "iw wlan0 set txpower 1500" for example to set to 15dBm output pwoer
Thanks, txpower is a good hint.
As the stations will be built from scratch (SoC+RAM+Flash+Wifi-Chipset), we can chose the right chipsets, as long as it's possible to buy them somewhere.
I'd definitely recommend to buy WiFi modules (e.g. pci-e) or off-the-shelf boards with WiFi SoCs on it. If you don't have experience in building WiFi routers, you might have a lot of fun otherwise. :)
The issue is that the stations need to be very low power, so I'd like to leave everything out which draws power but isn't absolutely needed. The HF part should be solvable, that's something the hardware developers have experience with. I'm aiming for a low power ARM cpu, which basically rules out anything that needs PCIe and leaves us with SDIO or USB for the connection of the transmitters.
rsc