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San Francisco 2010

This event will be September 9-10, 2010 (Thursday-Friday) in San Francisco. Meeting space will be in Marriott Union Square San Francisco at 480 Sutter Street. A group rate of $159/night at the hotel is available for two nights (September 9-11) with group code "wifwifa". Direct link to the reservation page: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/sfous?groupCode=wifwifa&app=resvlink&fromDate=9/9/10&toDate=9/11/10

Topics

  • Overview of Wi-Fi Alliance
  • Wi-Fi Direct (P2P)
    • Introduction to the protocol
    • Driver requirements
    • mac80211 design
    • wpa_supplicant/hostapd functionality
    • Planning for communication with other than core WLAN components
  • cfg80211/mac80211 issues with different channels on different virtual interfaces
  • Enabling more spectrum availability when roaming through GeoClue, passing accuracy values to the kernel for regulatory hints

  • Requirements for wireless-regdb patches
  • powersaving in multi-interface scenarios
  • automated testing of the drivers and Linux WLAN
  • extended capabilities and action frame registration (11v)
  • define mac80211 callback order (e.g. station notification before/after bss_info_changed?)
  • RSN IBSS
    • iwlwifi might require knowing this to disable hw group crypto, not sure what happens if simply no key exists
  • GTK handling in mac80211
  • HT IBSS
  • a-MSDU TX support
  • usage of BUG_ON in wireless core and drivers
  • Improving the relationship with the community on legacy drivers / documentation
  • changing interface types while interface is up

Schedule

Thursday

Time

Session

Owner

9:00 - 10:00

WFA Overview, P2P introduction?

Jouni

10:00 - 11:00

11:00 - 12:00

12:00 - 13:00

13:00 - 14:00

lunch

14:00 - 15:00

15:00 - 16:00

16:00 - 17:00

17:00 - 18:00

Friday

Time

Session

Owner

09:00 - 10:00

10:00 - 11:00

11:00 - 12:00

12:00 - 13:00

13:00 - 14:00

lunch

14:00 - 15:00

15:00 - 16:00

16:00 - 17:00

17:00 - 18:00

Attendees

  • Jouni Malinen
  • Johannes Berg
  • Kalle Valo
  • Henry Ptasinski
  • Lennert Buytenhek
  • Luis R. Rodriguez
  • Luciano Coelho
  • John Linville
  • Brett Rudley
  • Wey-Yi Guy
  • Ajit Pal Singh
  • Nohee Ko
  • Tim Gardner
  • Jason Young

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