TY - JOUR
T1 - A combination logic design for a high speed IEEE 802.11 MAC controller
AU - Li, Ren Zong
AU - Huang, Shang Pin
AU - Lin, Fu Shung
AU - Hong, Ming Tsung
AU - Chen, Po-Ning
PY - 2003/1/1
Y1 - 2003/1/1
N2 - In this paper, we propose a pure combinational logic design for the implementation of IEEE802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol, in contrast to firmware implementation based on an embedded micro-engine. In order to have a timely response, a Control Frame Handler is also included in our MAC controller. A further improvement for timely manipulation on the time-critical management frames (such as Beacon, ATIM and Probe Response) is subsequently developed in our revised edition. Equipped with a self-developed PCMCIA unit, the functions of our MAC controller have been verified using two Altera EPF 10K-100 ARC240–2 FPGAs in an on-line MAC-to-MAC data exchange fashion. Experimental results show that a pure combinational logic design can easily achieve a baseband-interfacing throughput of over-100Mbps with a cost-effect gate count of 21702.
AB - In this paper, we propose a pure combinational logic design for the implementation of IEEE802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol, in contrast to firmware implementation based on an embedded micro-engine. In order to have a timely response, a Control Frame Handler is also included in our MAC controller. A further improvement for timely manipulation on the time-critical management frames (such as Beacon, ATIM and Probe Response) is subsequently developed in our revised edition. Equipped with a self-developed PCMCIA unit, the functions of our MAC controller have been verified using two Altera EPF 10K-100 ARC240–2 FPGAs in an on-line MAC-to-MAC data exchange fashion. Experimental results show that a pure combinational logic design can easily achieve a baseband-interfacing throughput of over-100Mbps with a cost-effect gate count of 21702.
KW - IEEE 802.11
KW - Medium access control
KW - Wireless local area network
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0037349325&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02533839.2003.9670777
DO - 10.1080/02533839.2003.9670777
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037349325
SN - 0253-3839
VL - 26
SP - 255
EP - 259
JO - Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, Transactions of the Chinese Institute of Engineers,Series A/Chung-kuo Kung Ch'eng Hsuch K'an
JF - Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, Transactions of the Chinese Institute of Engineers,Series A/Chung-kuo Kung Ch'eng Hsuch K'an
IS - 2
ER -