Anand, Possibly useful, and I believe a small change to the 6top interface. Thomas
On Thursday, June 4, 2015, SVR Anand <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > A slight digression from the ongoing ML discussions. Hope the timing is OK! > > As we all know, transmit power control is one of the powerful knobs that > can be > used to minimize the interference and thereby improve the wireless network > performance and also provide deterministic network. Cell breathing > technique > used in WLANs comes to our mind. When it comes to 6tisch, one might argue > that > with 16 channels at our disposal, the interference can be avoided through > smart > 6top cell management interface without worrying much about transmit power > control. However, there can be scenarios where transmit power control > might be > required, for instance, (i) large scale dense deployments with heavy > traffic > demands (ii) Co-existing WiFi reducing available non-overlapping channels > for > 15.4 (iii) prevent wireless leaks beyond the periphery of the deployement > region and (iv) OTF scheduling where nodes make local decisions for > managing > cells, may be more. > > One possibility is to leave the power management to the nodes. We are then > leaving this to implementors to device their own algorithms to handle > interference. Alternatively, a centralised controller (NME) knowing the > information about conflicting links can adaptively and optimally adjust the > operating transmit power of the nodes to avoid the interference and > maximize > the wireless network performance. > > If we treat transmit power as one of the controllable parameters along > with the > cell management parameters, wondering if 6tisch 6top interface MIB is the > place > to define this. Or this parameter is beyond the scope of 6tisch. > > Any suggestions ? > > Anand > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > 6tisch mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6tisch >
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