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A novel implementation of the IEEE802.11 Medium Access Control

Samadi, S ; Sharif University of Technology | 2006

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/ISPACS.2006.364704
  3. Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc , 2006
  4. Abstract:
  5. This work presents some new optimization approaches to implementation of Medium Access Control (MAC) layer of IEEE 802.11 wireless networking protocol using general purpose DSP and gate array systems. Optimization starts at design level. The hardware/software partitioning of the MACs architecture is optimized in the sense of minimal implementation burden, while maintaining the system's functionalities and performance. The proposed partitioning and implementation technique obviates the use of any Real Time Operating System (RTOS), which leads to a simple, high speed, and low memory structure of the MACs software. Also, solutions such as using hash tables and pipeline processing are given and employed to gain a higher speed. The software section is implemented on the popular, low price DSP of TI's C54 processor, whereas the hardware implementation is realized using Virtex2vp30 from Xilinx. © 2006 IEEE
  6. Keywords:
  7. Computer operating systems ; IEEE Standards ; Pipeline processing systems ; Signal processing ; Hardware implementations ; Hardware/software partitioning ; Implementation techniques ; Medium access control layer ; Optimization approach ; Pipeline processing ; Real time operating system ; Wireless networking protocols ; Medium access control
  8. Source: 2006 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications, ISPACS'06, Yonago, 12 December 2006 through 15 December 2006 ; 2006 , Pages 489-492 ; 0780397339 (ISBN); 9780780397330 (ISBN)
  9. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4212322