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Implementation of IEEE 802.11n MAC using Design Methodology  

Chung, Chul-Ho (연세대학교 전기전자공학과 정보통신용 SoC 설계연구실)
Lee, Sun-Kee (연세대학교 전기전자공학과 정보통신용 SoC 설계연구실)
Jung, Yun-Ho (한국항공대학교 항공전자 및 정보통신공학부)
Kim, Jae-Seok (연세대학교 전기전자공학과)
Publication Information
The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.34, no.4B, 2009 , pp. 360-367 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a design methodology of IEEE 802.11n MAC which aims to achieve the higher throughput of more than 100Mbps in downlink as measured at the MAC-SAP and present the implementation results of MAC using the proposed design methodology. With our proposed methodology, different from the conventional design flow which has the separate codes for the protocol validation, for the network simulation, and for the system implementation, the unified code can be used for the network simulation and the implementation of software and hardware. Our MAC architecture is partitioned into two parts, Upper-layer MAC and Lower-layer MAC, in order to achieve the high efficiency for the new features of IEEE 802.11n standard. They are implemented in software and hardware respectively. The implemented MAC is tested on ARM based FPGA board.
Keywords
WLAN; MAC; IEEE 802.11n; Design Methodology; Implementation;
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