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
- 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 |
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7:30 - 9:00 |
Breakfast |
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9:00 - 9:30 |
Welcome, introduction, agenda bashing |
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9:30 - 10:30 |
WFA Overview, P2P introduction |
Jouni/Henry |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
P2P demo; mac80211/wpa_supplicant design |
Jouni |
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12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 - 14:00 |
P2P virtual interfaces, power saving, etc. needed functionality |
Jouni |
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14:00 - 15:00 |
multi-channel operation in cfg80211/mac80211 |
Johannes |
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15:00 - 15:30 |
Break |
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15:30 - 16:00 |
Requirements for wireless-regdb patches |
Linville/Luis |
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16:00 - 17:00 |
World roaming and GeoClue |
Luis |
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17:00 - 18:00 |
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Friday
Time |
Session |
Owner |
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7:30 - 9:00 |
Breakfast |
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09:00 - 10:30 |
Legacy drivers support / documentation |
Luis |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
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12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 - 14:00 |
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14:00 - 15:00 |
IBSS issues (RSN/GTKs, HT) |
Johannes |
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15:00 - 15:30 |
Break |
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15:00 - 16:00 |
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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
- Sam Leffler
- Paul Stewart
- Irfan Sheriff
- Dimitry Shmidt
- Abhijeet Kolekar
- Ajay Gupta
- Cyrille Vignon