{nl,cfg,mac}80211: Implement RSSI threshold for mesh peering

Mesh peer links are established only if average rssi of the peer
candidate satisfies the threshold. This is not in 802.11s specification
but was requested by David Fulgham, an open80211s user. This is a way to avoid
marginal peer links with stations that are barely within range.

This patch adds a new mesh configuration parameter, mesh_rssi_threshold. This
feature is supported only for hardwares that report signal in dBm.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
Ashok Nagarajan 2012-02-28 17:04:08 -08:00 • committed by John W. Linville
commit 5533513784
7 changed files with 39 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
#define MESH_PERR_MIN_INT 100
#define MESH_DIAM_TRAVERSAL_TIME 50
#define MESH_RSSI_THRESHOLD 0
/*
* A path will be refreshed if it is used PATH_REFRESH_TIME milliseconds
* before timing out. This way it will remain ACTIVE and no data frames
@ -56,6 +58,7 @@ const struct mesh_config default_mesh_config = {
.dot11MeshHWMPRannInterval = MESH_RANN_INTERVAL,
.dot11MeshGateAnnouncementProtocol = false,
.dot11MeshForwarding = true,
.rssi_threshold = MESH_RSSI_THRESHOLD,
};
const struct mesh_setup default_mesh_setup = {

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@ -3290,6 +3290,8 @@ static int nl80211_get_mesh_config(struct sk_buff *skb,
cur_params.dot11MeshGateAnnouncementProtocol);
NLA_PUT_U8(msg, NL80211_MESHCONF_FORWARDING,
cur_params.dot11MeshForwarding);
NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_MESHCONF_RSSI_THRESHOLD,
cur_params.rssi_threshold);
nla_nest_end(msg, pinfoattr);
genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
return genlmsg_reply(msg, info);
@ -3322,6 +3324,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_meshconf_params_policy[NL80211_MESHCONF_A
[NL80211_MESHCONF_HWMP_RANN_INTERVAL] = { .type = NLA_U16 },
[NL80211_MESHCONF_GATE_ANNOUNCEMENTS] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
[NL80211_MESHCONF_FORWARDING] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
[NL80211_MESHCONF_RSSI_THRESHOLD] = { .type = NLA_U32},
};
static const struct nla_policy
@ -3413,6 +3416,8 @@ do {\
nla_get_u8);
FILL_IN_MESH_PARAM_IF_SET(tb, cfg, dot11MeshForwarding,
mask, NL80211_MESHCONF_FORWARDING, nla_get_u8);
FILL_IN_MESH_PARAM_IF_SET(tb, cfg, rssi_threshold,
mask, NL80211_MESHCONF_RSSI_THRESHOLD, nla_get_u32);
if (mask_out)
*mask_out = mask;