Wireless Networking track

Thursday, October 16, 2014 from 1:30 – 4:30pm
Room 26
 

The Linux Plumbers 2014 Wireless Networking track is focusing on ongoing topics related to wireless networking in the Linux ecosystem.. This includes 802.11 wireless LANs, Bluetooth, NFC, and related technologies.

The structure will be short introductions to an issue or topic followed by a discussion with the audience. A hard limit of 3 slides per presentation is enforced to ensure focus and allocate enough time for discussions.

Microconference Leaders

John Linville, Johannes Berg

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Sessions for this track

* "Minstrel-Blues" - Practical Joint Rate und Power Control in Linux mac80211 with todays 802.11b/g/a/n Chips

I will present the design, implemenation and performance imapct of my pratical joint rate and power control algorithm "Minstrel-Blues" within Linux mac80211 and IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n Atheros chips. (slides)
Wireless Networking
Thomas Hühn

* AP Group Features

Optimization of wireless networks over multiple Linux driven APs.
Wireless Networking
Helmut Schaa

* Cloud-based wireless packet capture, sharing, analysis, and diagnosis

It would be a lot easier to debug this wifi problem if only you had a packet trace.
Wireless Networking
Avery Pennarun

* Extremely high speed and high coverage home wifi

802.11ac speeds are great - if you're 3 feet away.
Wireless Networking
Avery Pennarun

* generalized firmware coredump support

report on the work (done|in progress) on a unified firmware coredump mechanism
Wireless Networking
Johannes Berg

* randomized MAC address scanning

for privacy reasons, randomized MAC address scanning may be a good feature to have
Wireless Networking
Johannes Berg

* What's missing for Miracast?

Missing bits and pieces in the wireless stack to make Miracast work on linux.
Wireless Networking
David Herrmann