A novel design of IEEE 802.15.3 MAC over UWB

Author

Cai, Yu ; Guo, Zihua ; Yao, Richard

Author_Institution

Microsoft Res. Asia, Beijing, China

Volume

7

fYear

2004

fDate

26-29 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

5297

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a novel design for the medium access control (MAC) layer of IEEE 802.15.3, which is defined for a high-rate WPAN system. We split the 802.15.3 MAC into two layers: upper layer MAC and lower layer MAC, according to the different timing requirements. Thus, our MAC implementation includes two main modules: (1) a 802.15.3 network interface card (NIC) which is responsible for only direct transmission/reception and other timing critical functions such as protocol accelerator; (2) a driver in operating system (OS) which is a flexible plug-in module and allows us to implement some non-timing-critical intelligent algorithms. The proposed approach has many advantages such as scalability, flexibility and low cost for chip vendors.

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; computer networks; mobile computing; network operating systems; personal area networks; radio access networks; radio equipment; telecommunication equipment testing; telecommunication standards; ultra wideband communication; IEEE 802.15.3 MAC over UWB design; NIC; chip vendor cost; direct transmission/reception; flexibility; flexible plug-in module; high-rate WPAN system; lower layer MAC; medium access control layer; network interface card; nontiming-critical intelligent algorithms; operating system driver; protocol accelerator; scalability; timing critical functions; timing requirements; upper layer MAC; Asia; Cost function; Hardware; Intelligent networks; Media Access Protocol; Network interfaces; Operating systems; Scalability; System testing; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004. VTC2004-Fall. 2004 IEEE 60th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8521-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2004.1405113

Filename

1405113