New, more realistic multi-hop network testbed

[Michail Bletsas]

cananian at gmail.com wrote on 06/08/2008 12:25:13 PM:

> While we're talking about networking:
> 
> From discussions with the OLSRd guys, one way they made their
> protocols work well in dense networks was to aggressively use *all*
> the 802.11*a* as well as g channels.  802.11a has 24+ non-overlapping
> channels (in some regulatory environments) which could go a long way
> towards keeping the number of nodes on any given slice of spectrum
> below the 40-node 802.11 MAC limits.
> 
> It appears that our wireless chipset supports 802.11a, although our
> frontend and antennas are apparently tuned for 802.11b/g.  That could
> be an advantage: in dense scenarios we actually *want* to keep tx
> power and rx sensitivity low (at the expense of some multihop routes).
>  Michalis, does exploring 802.11a operation in some school
> environments seem reasonable to you?

The R.F. power amplifier on our current radio doesn't support 5Ghz.

M.
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