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One size hardly fits all: towards context-specific wireless MAC protocol deployment

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Giuseppe Bianchi,

Ilenia TinnirelloAuthors Info & Claims

WiNTECH '13: Proceedings of the 8th ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation & characterization

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2505469.2505482

Published: 30 September 2013 Publication History

Abstract

This paper casts recent accomplishments in the field of Wireless MAC programmability into the emerging Software Defined Networking perspective. We argue that an abstract (but formal) description of the MAC protocol logic in terms of extensible finite state machines appears a convenient and viable data-plane programming compromise for modeling and deploying realistic MAC protocol logics. Our approach is shown to comply with existing control frameworks, and entails the ability to dynamically change the MAC protocol operation based on context and scenario conditions; in essence, move from the traditional idea of "one-size-fits-all" MAC protocol stack to the innovative paradigm of opportunistically on-the-fly deployed context-specific MAC stacks. With the help of selected and currently developed use cases, we report on preliminary integration activities within the CREW federated wireless testbed, and its OMF experiment control framework.

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13638-016-0664-7
Salvador PGringoli FSerrano PFacchi NParis S(2015)Making a case for flexible 802.11 architectures2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)10.1109/ICC.2015.7248896(3678-3684)Online publication date: Jun-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2015.7248896
Valck PMoerman ICroce DGiuliano FTinnirello IGarlisi DPoorter EJooris B(2014)Exploiting programmable architectures for WiFi/ZigBee inter-technology cooperationEURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking10.1186/1687-1499-2014-2122014:1Online publication date: 6-Dec-2014
https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1499-2014-212

Index Terms

One size hardly fits all: towards context-specific wireless MAC protocol deployment
1. Networks
  1. Network types
    1. Mobile networks
    2. Wireless access networks

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WiNTECH '13: Proceedings of the 8th ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation & characterization

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ISBN:9781450323642

DOI:10.1145/2505469

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Zeeshan MAli ANaveed ALiu AWang AQureshi H(2016)Modeling packet loss probability and busy time in multi-hop wireless networksEURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking10.1186/s13638-016-0664-72016:1Online publication date: 15-Jul-2016
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13638-016-0664-7
Salvador PGringoli FSerrano PFacchi NParis S(2015)Making a case for flexible 802.11 architectures2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)10.1109/ICC.2015.7248896(3678-3684)Online publication date: Jun-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2015.7248896
Valck PMoerman ICroce DGiuliano FTinnirello IGarlisi DPoorter EJooris B(2014)Exploiting programmable architectures for WiFi/ZigBee inter-technology cooperationEURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking10.1186/1687-1499-2014-2122014:1Online publication date: 6-Dec-2014
https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1499-2014-212

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