# MadWifi configuration config MADWIFI_DEBUG bool "Enable compilation of debugging features" depends on DEVEL && PACKAGE_kmod-madwifi default n config MADWIFI_COMPRESSION bool "Enable Atheros Super A/G Compression" depends on PACKAGE_kmod-madwifi depends !TARGET_ar71xx default n help Enables Atheros Super A/G Hardware Compression Engine. choice prompt "Madwifi version" depends on PACKAGE_kmod-madwifi default MADWIFI_STABLE help This option allows you to select the version of MadWifi to be built. config MADWIFI_STABLE bool "Use the OpenWrt stable version of madwifi" config MADWIFI_UPSTREAM depends BROKEN depends !TARGET_atheros bool "Use the upstream release version 0.9.4" endchoice choice prompt "Rate control algorithm selection" depends on PACKAGE_kmod-madwifi default MADWIFI_RCA_MINSTREL help This option controls how MadWifi chooses its bitrate. config MADWIFI_RCA_MINSTREL bool "Use the Minstrel rate control algorithm" help This code is takes a wandering minstrel approach. Wander around the different rates, singing wherever you can. And then, look at the performance, and make a choice. Note that the wandering minstrel will always wander in directions where he/she feels he/she will get paid the best for his/her work. config MADWIFI_RCA_ONOE bool "Use the Onoe rate control algorithm" help Onoe is a credit based RCA where the value of the credit is determined by the frequency of successful, erroneous and retransmissions accumulated during a fixed invocation period of 1000 ms. If less than 10% of the packets need to be retransmitted at a particular rate, Onoe keeps increasing its credit point till the threshold value of 10 is reached. At this point, the current transmission rate is increased to the next available higher rate and the process repeated with credit score of zero. Similar logic holds for deducting the credit score and moving to a lower bit-rate for failed packet transmission/retransmission attempts. However, once a bit-rate has been marked as failure in the previous attempt, Onoe will not attempt to select that bit-rate until 10 seconds have elapsed since the last attempt. Due to the manner in which it operates, Onoe is conservative in rate selection and is less sensitive to individual packet failure. config MADWIFI_RCA_AMRR bool "Use the AMRR rate control algorithm" help AMRR uses Binary Exponential Backoff (BEB) technique to adapt the length (threshold) of the sampling period used to change the values of bit-rate and transmission count parameters. It uses probe packets and depending on their transmission status adaptively changes the threshold value. The adaptation mechanism ensures fewer failed transmission/retransmission and higher throughput by not switching to a higher rate as specified by the backoff mechanism. In addition to this, the AMRR employs heuristics to capture the short-term variations of the channel by judiciously setting the rate and transmission count parameters. config MADWIFI_RCA_SAMPLERATE bool "Use the SampleRate rate control algorithm" help SampleRate decides on the transmission bit-rate based on the past history of performance; it keeps a record of the number of successive failures, the number of successful transmits and the total transmission time along with the destination for that bit-rate. Stale samples are removed based on a EWMA windowing mechanism. If in the sampling process, no successful acknowledgment is received or the number of packets sent is multiple of 10 on a specific link, it transmits the packet with the highest rate which has not failed 4 successive times. Other than that it transmits packets at the rate which has the lowest average transmission time. endchoice