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2012 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a New Experimental Platform for Medium Access Control Protocols
verfasst von : Francisco Vázquez Gallego, Jesús Alonso-Zarate, Danica Gajic, Christian Liss, Christos Verikoukis
Erschienen in: Testbeds and Research Infrastructure. Development of Networks and Communities
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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OpenMAC is presented in this paper as an innovative experimental platform suitable for field testing and performance evaluation of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols developed in C++. The concept design of OpenMAC avoids the use of hardware-specific code or Hardware Description Language (HDL), softening the learning curve and accelerating the implementation process. This paper describes the OpenMAC hardware/software architecture and shows its benefits with a design example of a Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) protocol. Finally, the paper provides the implementation details and presents performance results of a practical test to demonstrate how OpenMAC can fulfill strict MAC timing specifications and thus perform as a device backwards compatible with standards.