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Testbed implementation of the meta-MAC protocol

Nathaniel FlickDomenico GarlisiViolet R. SyrotiukIlenia Tinnirello

subject

Wireless mesh networkInter-Access Point ProtocolComputer sciencebusiness.industrySettore ING-INF/03 - TelecomunicazioniComputerSystemsOrganization_COMPUTER-COMMUNICATIONNETWORKSComputer Science (all)020206 networking & telecommunications020302 automobile design & engineeringOrder One Network Protocol02 engineering and technologyWireless LAN controllerWireless Transport Layer Security0203 mechanical engineering0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringMedia access controlElectrical and Electronic EngineeringbusinessIEEE 802.11sWireless distribution systemComputer network

description

The meta-MAC protocol is a systematic and automatic method to dynamically combine any set of existing MAC protocols into a single higher layer MAC protocol. We present a proof-of-concept implementation of the meta-MAC protocol by utilizing a programmable wireless MAC processor (WMP) on top of a commodity wireless card in combination with a host-level software module. The implementation allows us to combine, with certain constraints, a number of protocols each represented as an extended finite state machine. To illustrate the combination principle, we combine protocols of the same type but with varying parameters in a wireless mesh network. Specifically, we combine TDMA protocols with all possible slot assignments. We demonstrate that an implementation of the meta-MAC protocol over the WMP rapidly converges to non-conflicting TDMA slot assignments for the nodes.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2016-04-01
10.1109/infcomw.2016.7562143http://hdl.handle.net/10447/205744