Re: Linux wireless summit videoes from LinuxCon 2011

[Nick Kossifidis]

2011/8/20 Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx>:
> For those that could not make it to the 2011 Linux wireless summit at
> LinuxCon Vancouver we have up 3 videoes on YouTube:
>
> 1) [RFC] 802.11 DFS design on mac80211 / ath9k
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yyFiLFx4Mg
>
> Saxnet present their latest effort on design for a DFS architecture
> for mac80211 and for ath9k. This is from LinuxCon 2011 this week.
> Saxnet did an awesome job. If this design works for certification it
> could mean lowering the entry price for AP vendors looking to pass DFS
> testing. This work is under review now.
>
> 2) 802.11s on LInux mac80211
>
> 802.11s Mesh Networking was ratified by IEEE for integration into
> 802.11. Javier Cardona has been leading its implementation and support
> on mac80211. In this session he reviews 802.11s with open and
> encrypted environments. 802.11s uses a different encryption algorithm
> called "simultaneous authentication of equals", Javier reviews work
> needed to integrate the userspace application required supporting this
> encryption mechanism on hostapd / wpa_supplicant.
>
> 3) wmediumd for mac80211_hwsim
>
> Javier Cardona explains what Cozybit used to test the 802.11s code
> implemented in mac80211. He used extensions to mac80211_hwsim that
> allow links to be lossy. Cozybit also wrote a daemon to communicate to
> mac80211_hwsim to statically or dynamically alter the characteristics
> of the links. Right now mac80211_hwsim only accounts for packet loss
> between links but extensions can be made to also add latency later. He
> also demos a Java application used to create your topology for
> mac80211_hwsim. Researchers should get a chubby with this framework --
> you can extend this to do really cool shit, all in software with no
> hardware.
>
> --
>
> Kudos to Saxnet and Cozybit for their presentations and *awesome* work
> on coding up stuff and doing a great job at explaining all this to us.
>
> Nothing else was recorded, sorry :) If you loose the links you'll be
> able to find them here:
>
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation#YouTube_Documentation
>
> ÂLuis

Thanks a lot !

Is it possible to have the presentations uploaded on the wiki also ?



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Nick
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