DocumentCode :
2461963
Title :
A Flexible Framework for Wireless Medium Access Protocols
Author :
Hunter, Chris ; Camp, Joseph ; Murphy, Patrick ; Sabharwal, Ashutosh ; Dick, Chris
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rice Univ., Houston, TX
fYear :
2006
fDate :
Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006
Firstpage :
2046
Lastpage :
2050
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a framework for Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol development and performance evaluation. The framework, developed for the Rice University Wireless Open-Access Research Platform (WARP), allows us to interface a large class of medium access protocols with custom physical layer (PHY) implementations, thereby providing a flexible and high-performance research tool. MAC protocols for our framework are written in C and targeted to embedded PowerPC cores within the Xilinx Virtex II-Pro class of FPGAs. A key innovation is a flexible interface between the PHY and the MAC capable of exposing user-defined parameters to either layer, thus enabling cross-layer research.
Keywords :
access protocols; radiocommunication; Wireless Open-Access Research Platform; custom physical layer; wireless medium access protocols; Access protocols; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Media Access Protocol; Physical layer; Spread spectrum communication; Technological innovation; Testing; Throughput; USA Councils;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Signals, Systems and Computers, 2006. ACSSC '06. Fortieth Asilomar Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pacific Grove, CA
ISSN :
1058-6393
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0784-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1058-6393
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ACSSC.2006.355126
Filename :
4176936
Link To Document :
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