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Author SHA1 Message Date
Paul Stewart
174fa7898e 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.
2010-10-12 20:03:36 +03:00
Jouni Malinen
1e6ef6455c bgscan simple: Skip immediate scan on initial signal event
The driver is likely to indicate an immediate signal event when the
threshold value is configured. Since we do this immediately after
association, there is not much point in requesting a new scan to be
started based on this event.
2010-08-27 20:29:02 +03:00
Jouni Malinen
60a972a68d Add current signal strength into signal quality change events 2010-08-27 16:58:06 +03:00
Jouni Malinen
c2594c3677 bgscan: Provide scan results to the notify_scan handler 2010-07-10 15:43:44 -07:00
Jouni Malinen
e2f74005f5 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"
2010-03-28 15:32:34 -07:00
Jouni Malinen
9ba9fa07cc Move wpa_supplicant specific scan code away from src/drivers
This fits better in wpa_supplicant/scan.c. Couple of remaining
scan_helpers.c functions are currently used in driver wrappers,
but they can likely be removed in the future.
2010-01-03 18:48:11 +02:00
Jouni Malinen
60b94c9819 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.
2009-09-15 00:08:24 +03:00