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= Station =

The station implementation in the Mango 802.11 Reference Design can associate and communicate with 802.11 access points (WARP or otherwise). The source and sink of traffic for the station is Ethernet. Because an AP expects the wireless MAC address of each station to match collected clients,

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There are three broad classes of events that pull the STA implementation out of an idle state. Those classes are:

1. Wireless MPDU Receptions
1. Ethernet Frame Receptions
1. User Interaction Events

In our implementation, each of these state transitions occurs via an interrupt.

== Wireless MPDU Receptions ==
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||  '''MPDU Reception States'''  ||


== Ethernet Frame Receptions ==
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||  '''Ethernet Reception States'''  ||

== User Interaction Events ==
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||  '''User Interaction Events'''  ||