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Add preliminary background scan and roaming module design This allows background scanning and roaming decisions to be contained in a single place based on a defined set of notification events which will hopefully make it easier to experiment with roaming improvements. In addition, this allows multiple intra-ESS roaming policies to be used (each network configuration block can configure its own bgscan module). The beacon loss and signal strength notifications are implemented for the bgscan API, but the actual events are not yet available from the driver. The included sample bgscan module ("simple") is an example of what can be done with the new bgscan mechanism. It requests periodic background scans when the device remains associated with an ESS and has couple of notes on what a more advanced bgscan module could do to optimize background scanning and roaming. The periodic scans will cause the scan result handler to pick a better AP if one becomes available. This bgscan module can be taken into use by adding bgscan="simple" (or bgscan="simple:<bgscan interval in seconds>") into the network configuration block.
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/*
* WPA Supplicant - background scan and roaming interface
bgscan: Add signal strength change events This allows bgscan modules to use more information to decide on when to perform background scans. bgscan_simple can now change between short and long background scan intervals based on signal strength and in addition, it can trigger immediate scans when the signal strength is detected to be dropping. bgscan_simple takes following parameters now: short interval:signal strength threshold:long interval For example: bgscan="simple:30:-45:300"
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* Copyright (c) 2009-2010, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Add preliminary background scan and roaming module design This allows background scanning and roaming decisions to be contained in a single place based on a defined set of notification events which will hopefully make it easier to experiment with roaming improvements. In addition, this allows multiple intra-ESS roaming policies to be used (each network configuration block can configure its own bgscan module). The beacon loss and signal strength notifications are implemented for the bgscan API, but the actual events are not yet available from the driver. The included sample bgscan module ("simple") is an example of what can be done with the new bgscan mechanism. It requests periodic background scans when the device remains associated with an ESS and has couple of notes on what a more advanced bgscan module could do to optimize background scanning and roaming. The periodic scans will cause the scan result handler to pick a better AP if one becomes available. This bgscan module can be taken into use by adding bgscan="simple" (or bgscan="simple:<bgscan interval in seconds>") into the network configuration block.
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*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
* published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of BSD
* license.
*
* See README and COPYING for more details.
*/
#ifndef BGSCAN_H
#define BGSCAN_H
struct wpa_supplicant;
struct wpa_ssid;
struct bgscan_ops {
const char *name;
void * (*init)(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s, const char *params,
const struct wpa_ssid *ssid);
void (*deinit)(void *priv);
bgscan: Provide scan results to the notify_scan handler
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int (*notify_scan)(void *priv, struct wpa_scan_results *scan_res);
Add preliminary background scan and roaming module design This allows background scanning and roaming decisions to be contained in a single place based on a defined set of notification events which will hopefully make it easier to experiment with roaming improvements. In addition, this allows multiple intra-ESS roaming policies to be used (each network configuration block can configure its own bgscan module). The beacon loss and signal strength notifications are implemented for the bgscan API, but the actual events are not yet available from the driver. The included sample bgscan module ("simple") is an example of what can be done with the new bgscan mechanism. It requests periodic background scans when the device remains associated with an ESS and has couple of notes on what a more advanced bgscan module could do to optimize background scanning and roaming. The periodic scans will cause the scan result handler to pick a better AP if one becomes available. This bgscan module can be taken into use by adding bgscan="simple" (or bgscan="simple:<bgscan interval in seconds>") into the network configuration block.
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void (*notify_beacon_loss)(void *priv);
Add current signal strength into signal quality change events
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void (*notify_signal_change)(void *priv, int above,
bgscan: Add new channel condition parameters to signal change events bgscan modules can potentially get a richer feel for the channel condition and make better choices about scan/no-scan and roam/no-roam.
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int current_signal,
int current_noise,
int current_txrate);
Add preliminary background scan and roaming module design This allows background scanning and roaming decisions to be contained in a single place based on a defined set of notification events which will hopefully make it easier to experiment with roaming improvements. In addition, this allows multiple intra-ESS roaming policies to be used (each network configuration block can configure its own bgscan module). The beacon loss and signal strength notifications are implemented for the bgscan API, but the actual events are not yet available from the driver. The included sample bgscan module ("simple") is an example of what can be done with the new bgscan mechanism. It requests periodic background scans when the device remains associated with an ESS and has couple of notes on what a more advanced bgscan module could do to optimize background scanning and roaming. The periodic scans will cause the scan result handler to pick a better AP if one becomes available. This bgscan module can be taken into use by adding bgscan="simple" (or bgscan="simple:<bgscan interval in seconds>") into the network configuration block.
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};
#ifdef CONFIG_BGSCAN
int bgscan_init(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s, struct wpa_ssid *ssid);
void bgscan_deinit(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s);
bgscan: Provide scan results to the notify_scan handler
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int bgscan_notify_scan(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s,
struct wpa_scan_results *scan_res);
Add preliminary background scan and roaming module design This allows background scanning and roaming decisions to be contained in a single place based on a defined set of notification events which will hopefully make it easier to experiment with roaming improvements. In addition, this allows multiple intra-ESS roaming policies to be used (each network configuration block can configure its own bgscan module). The beacon loss and signal strength notifications are implemented for the bgscan API, but the actual events are not yet available from the driver. The included sample bgscan module ("simple") is an example of what can be done with the new bgscan mechanism. It requests periodic background scans when the device remains associated with an ESS and has couple of notes on what a more advanced bgscan module could do to optimize background scanning and roaming. The periodic scans will cause the scan result handler to pick a better AP if one becomes available. This bgscan module can be taken into use by adding bgscan="simple" (or bgscan="simple:<bgscan interval in seconds>") into the network configuration block.
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void bgscan_notify_beacon_loss(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s);
Add current signal strength into signal quality change events
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void bgscan_notify_signal_change(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s, int above,
bgscan: Add new channel condition parameters to signal change events bgscan modules can potentially get a richer feel for the channel condition and make better choices about scan/no-scan and roam/no-roam.
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int current_signal, int current_noise,
int current_txrate);
Add preliminary background scan and roaming module design This allows background scanning and roaming decisions to be contained in a single place based on a defined set of notification events which will hopefully make it easier to experiment with roaming improvements. In addition, this allows multiple intra-ESS roaming policies to be used (each network configuration block can configure its own bgscan module). The beacon loss and signal strength notifications are implemented for the bgscan API, but the actual events are not yet available from the driver. The included sample bgscan module ("simple") is an example of what can be done with the new bgscan mechanism. It requests periodic background scans when the device remains associated with an ESS and has couple of notes on what a more advanced bgscan module could do to optimize background scanning and roaming. The periodic scans will cause the scan result handler to pick a better AP if one becomes available. This bgscan module can be taken into use by adding bgscan="simple" (or bgscan="simple:<bgscan interval in seconds>") into the network configuration block.
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#else /* CONFIG_BGSCAN */
static inline int bgscan_init(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s,
struct wpa_ssid *ssid)
{
return 0;
}
static inline void bgscan_deinit(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s)
{
}
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static inline int bgscan_notify_scan(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s,
struct wpa_scan_results *scan_res)
Add preliminary background scan and roaming module design This allows background scanning and roaming decisions to be contained in a single place based on a defined set of notification events which will hopefully make it easier to experiment with roaming improvements. In addition, this allows multiple intra-ESS roaming policies to be used (each network configuration block can configure its own bgscan module). The beacon loss and signal strength notifications are implemented for the bgscan API, but the actual events are not yet available from the driver. The included sample bgscan module ("simple") is an example of what can be done with the new bgscan mechanism. It requests periodic background scans when the device remains associated with an ESS and has couple of notes on what a more advanced bgscan module could do to optimize background scanning and roaming. The periodic scans will cause the scan result handler to pick a better AP if one becomes available. This bgscan module can be taken into use by adding bgscan="simple" (or bgscan="simple:<bgscan interval in seconds>") into the network configuration block.
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{
return 0;
}
static inline void bgscan_notify_beacon_loss(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s)
{
}
bgscan: Add signal strength change events This allows bgscan modules to use more information to decide on when to perform background scans. bgscan_simple can now change between short and long background scan intervals based on signal strength and in addition, it can trigger immediate scans when the signal strength is detected to be dropping. bgscan_simple takes following parameters now: short interval:signal strength threshold:long interval For example: bgscan="simple:30:-45:300"
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static inline void bgscan_notify_signal_change(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s,
bgscan: Add new channel condition parameters to signal change events bgscan modules can potentially get a richer feel for the channel condition and make better choices about scan/no-scan and roam/no-roam.
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int above, int current_signal,
int current_noise,
int current_txrate)
Add preliminary background scan and roaming module design This allows background scanning and roaming decisions to be contained in a single place based on a defined set of notification events which will hopefully make it easier to experiment with roaming improvements. In addition, this allows multiple intra-ESS roaming policies to be used (each network configuration block can configure its own bgscan module). The beacon loss and signal strength notifications are implemented for the bgscan API, but the actual events are not yet available from the driver. The included sample bgscan module ("simple") is an example of what can be done with the new bgscan mechanism. It requests periodic background scans when the device remains associated with an ESS and has couple of notes on what a more advanced bgscan module could do to optimize background scanning and roaming. The periodic scans will cause the scan result handler to pick a better AP if one becomes available. This bgscan module can be taken into use by adding bgscan="simple" (or bgscan="simple:<bgscan interval in seconds>") into the network configuration block.
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{
}
#endif /* CONFIG_BGSCAN */
#endif /* BGSCAN_H */
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