Any tips on where per-packet antenna selection could be pushed?

[Ben Greear]

On 06/06/2016 10:12 AM, Zach Sherin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on a device with antenna selection, similar to the ideas
> behind Ruckus or Google's Onhub router. I've been looking into a
> solution for per-packet antenna selection (based on destination/next
> hop). I was hoping this list might be able to suggest where I should
> investigate adding that switching code. My switches are currently USB
> RF switches, but I'm going to be using some serial protocol for the
> final version (we don't have much to switch, and it should be a single
> byte per packet).
>
> The last suggestion I received was to emulate Netsed [1] by routing
> all packets through a specific socket, running antenna selection, and
> then pushing them to their final destinations.
>
> I assumed that the best place to do antenna selection would be within
> ath10k itself (my devices all run on ath10k) so that I could introduce
> the minimum possible latency with antenna selection. Should I be
> looking at a different part of the networking stack?
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions, or perhaps an open-source project
> out there already trying to do antenna selection?

Would per-peer antenna selection work?  That is probably more easily
hacked into the firmware (I don't think stock firmware supports this
feature, but I could be wrong.)

Thanks,
Ben

>
> Thanks,
> Zach
>
>
> [1] http://silicone.homelinux.org/projects/netsed/
>
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