TDMA Wireless status?

[Stephen Patrick]

Hello Adrian!

Yes, we're certainly very interested.

Ideally, looking for a developer who could assist in making this real &
working.

Look forward to hearing more,
Best regards

Stephen


On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 at 19:46, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There's some work done on the ath(4) hardware for 11a parts done by Sam
> Leffler. I fixed it for 11n parts. It's in FreeBSD-HEAD.
>
> I figured out how to get it mostly working on the AR93xx/AR94xx parts too
> but it turns out there are some significant hardware changes in how the MAC
> schedules packets that a whole lot of work needs to be done to get
> effective TDMA on those parts.
>
> If you're interested in it I can brain dump where I was at with it!
>
>
> -adrian
>
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 01:51, Stephen Patrick <stephen at cablefree.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Adrian,
>>
>> We are interested in "long range outdoor" (10-20km) with high gain
>> antennas.
>> Do you know "Mikrotik Nstreme/NV2" and "Ubiquity Airmax" ?
>> Those have framing/polling done in software - wrapped around the wireless
>> driver.
>> Is there equivalent developed in FreeBSD?
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 20:52, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> hi!
>>>
>>> I know that a lot of the 11ac chips do TDMA but the vendors keep the
>>> implementation and knobs close to their chest. We don't have any public
>>> APIs for it. Sorry :(
>>>
>>>
>>> -a
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 10:23, Stephen Patrick <stephen at cablefree.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear sirs,
>>>>
>>>> Is this feature working for point-to-point, and point-to-multipoint long
>>>> range links?
>>>> 802.11ac chipsets/modes supported?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>> Stephen
>>>>
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