Title : 
The design of an IEEE802.11 WLAN hardware MAC
         
        
            Author : 
Jiang, Anping ; Ren, Fang ; Li, Gang ; Pang, Yuedong ; Ban, Teng ; Gou, Weizhong ; Wang, Xinan
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Inst. of Microelectron., Peking Univ., Beijing, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The design of an IEEE802.11 WLAN hardware MAC is presented in this paper. The function of WLAN MAC layer is partitioned between hardware and software. Timing-critical and low-level functions are implemented by the hardware MAC.
         
        
            Keywords : 
IEEE standards; hardware-software codesign; microprocessor chips; wireless LAN; IEEE802.11; WLAN hardware MAC; hardware-software partitioning; medium access control; wireless LAN; Decision support systems; Electronic switching systems; Hardware; Logic; Media Access Protocol; Microelectronics; Physical layer; Wireless LAN; Wireless communication; Wireless networks;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Solid-State and Integrated Circuits Technology, 2004. Proceedings. 7th International Conference on
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8511-X
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICSICT.2004.1436814