DSRC Meeting minute

Date: November the 15th, 2002

Action Items for next meeting

  • Marco and Koushik: will add more paper in the "reading material section";
  • Koushik: will prepare a one page summary for every paper to post along with the paper;
  • Paul: read the 802.11a standard to figure out where the forward error correction coding is done.
  • Marco: will read and present Justin McNew's MAC extension proposal;
  • Paul: check out what is the price of a Linux SAS licence;
  • Daniel: will request Atheros to send Tony the new drivers source code;
  • Tony: will check what kind of error correction code algorithm is used; He will investigate if the CC is dinamically adjusted. If so he will figure out how to turn this feature off;
  • Paul: after the data collection we will end up with a great amount of data. Part of it may be invalid. Paul will figure out how to deal with this problem;
  • Koushik: will figure out how ns2 and OPNET deal with multiple packets collision;
  • Paul: will prepare a test plan work sheet;
  • Thomas: will use Paul worksheet to create a new CTK with automatic naming convention features;
Presentations:

  • Koushik Rajan, "Simulator (NS core and V2V)" [ppt file];
  • Paul Qing Xu, "Test plan" [ppt file];

Progress report and discussions

  • Traffic trace: we figure out why some nodes "disapeared" from the traffic trace;
  • Proposed idea on security: it cannot be implemented because the SIFS time is long enough to accomodate 2 OS interrupts;
  • Linux drivers: Linux drivers are coming out, are we going to switch to Linux?
  • Atheros new drivers: the new Atheros PCI cards do not work with the old Atheros drivers.
  • We want to modify the Atheros drivers in order to:
    • Stop and restart the beacon trasmission dynamically;
    • Choose and set the channel;
    • Set the transmission power;
    • Set the transmission rate;
  • We discuss the result of one experiment with the CTK;