I realize this runs a bit parallel to the SNMP-based implementation being
discussed here, but you might be interested to know that Henning Rogge, one
of the primary developers behind OLSR.org, has a draft/proposal RFC for
sharing hardware level radio metrics with a layer-3 router:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rogge-stateless-rfc5444-dlep-00

  "Stateless RFC5444-based Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP)", Henning
  Rogge, 4-Nov-12, <draft-rogge-stateless-rfc5444-dlep-00.txt>

    This document provides material for the discussion in the MANET WG
       about the Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP).  This document
       reflects the authors' thoughts about how a stateless DLEP protocol
       compliant with RFC5444 could look like.

...

   Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP, as defined in [dlep02
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rogge-stateless-rfc5444-dlep-00#ref-dlep02>])
is a
   proposal for a cross-layer protocol between a layer-2 entity like a
   radio and a layer-3 router to transport layer-2 metric, statistic and
   status data from the radio to the router.  In addition, it allows the
   router to control and configure aspects of the radio, such as radio
   status, channel or link speed.


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Jack Bates <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 19/03/13 02:58 PM, David Lang wrote:
>
>> # of clients connected to the SSID (associations)
>>
>> information on each connection
>>    signal strength
>>    MAC
>>
>> Radio airtime info
>>    how much time was spend recieving (unable to transmit)
>>    how much recieved traffic was corrupted by interference
>>    how much good recieved traffic was there
>>    how much time was spent transmitting
>>    how much idle airtime was there (time that transmissions could have
>> occured)
>>
>> going beyond the simple metrics that I want to graph into overall
>> network management issues
>>
>> some method (ideal something better than trying to sniff packets and
>> correlate them in userspace) to try and figure out how much airtime a
>> given station is eating up (especially something that can do this even
>> if the station gets trompted on and so the transmitted packet cannot be
>> fully received)
>>
>> some method of being able to figure out what other SSIDs are
>> broadcasting on the frequency that I'm currently tuned to and how much
>> airtime each SSID is eating up (including ones that don't send beacons)
>>
>
> Thanks David, I am interested in implementing this. If you already know
> how to get some of this data manually, can you please send me what you
> know? For example, do you have any thoughts on options for accessing the
> MAC address and signal strength for each connection (from such as
> mini_snmpd)?
>
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