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
>
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